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Are you paying more than your neighbour? It could be ‘surveillance pricing’

Advertisers and data brokers “are recording basically everywhere you go and then drawing inferences from that. So where do you like to shop? What kinds of things do you like to read?” said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University in Boston who researches digital consumer protection issues. 

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.

David Bau, who was doing similar work at Northeastern, told me: “I think that people will agree that it’s evidence that the black box is not totally opaque. I think we’ve turned a corner.”
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What AI In Government Actually Looks Like

Op-ed by Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University.
Rolling Stone

Get Ready for Ticket Prices to Keep Rising

But John Kwoka, a Northeastern University economics professor who specializes in antitrust, thinks that supply and demand aren’t enough to explain what’s happening. “I’m one of the economists who’ve argued you need to break up some companies,” he says.
CBS News

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While MAHA voters have been upset at some of the administration’s actions that promote industry, it’s hard to know how that may play out in the midterms, said Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University. 
WGBH

How to mentally prepare for running a marathon

Mark Herz spoke with mental performance coach and Northeastern University lecturer, Grayson Kimball, who’s been running marathons on and off for the last 25 years. What follows is a lightly edited transcript.
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Beacon Hill takes aim at the ills of kids’ social media use

The writer holds a doctoral degree in mass communications and is an associate professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University.

Drafting a Presidential Son? The Manosphere Wants to Talk About It.

Brooke Foucault Welles, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University who has studied “hashtag activism,” said online campaigns and slogans can frame the public’s thinking about divisive topics, noting that #SendBarron seems to be an attempt by some to call attention to “the class tensions around wars and the military.”
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D.C. school applications fall amid deportation fears and federal layoffs

Etai Mizrav, a professor of education policy at Northeastern University, said the systemwide decline “tells us that families across the District, not just in one neighborhood or one type of school, are making different choices about public education than they were a year ago.”
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See which celebrities are giving commencement speeches this year

The former “Lizzie McGuire” star will deliver what dreams are made of at Northeastern University’s commencement on April 29.
Scientific American

‘Moon joy’ and the overview effect—how views from space change us

“Even though they’re not seeing the Earth from space or from this sort of panoramic perspective, they’re getting a unique immersive experience that can shift them out of their normal, habitual ways of viewing the world,” says the study’s lead author Kristen Kilgallen, who researches psychology at Northeastern University.
The World

Why airplane wastewater is key in detecting emerging health threats

Scientists are zeroing in on wastewater surveillance of airplanes as a critical tool to quickly detect the global spread of emerging pathogens. To learn more about what a monitoring system would look like, The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler went to Logan International Airport in Boston to speak with Alessandro Vespignani, a professor at Northeastern University […]