Carrying Tasers increases police use of force, study finds
Cambridge experiment with City of London police found that, while rarely deployed, just the presence of electroshock devices led to greater overall hostility in police-public interactions – an example of what researchers call the ‘weapons effect’.
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Dec. 20, 2018 • ~7 min
Dec. 20, 2018 • ~7 min
The value of late-in-life health care spending | MIT News
Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
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June 28, 2018 • ~6 min
June 28, 2018 • ~6 min
MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 77 students from the Class of 2018 | MIT News
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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June 26, 2018 • ~3 min
June 26, 2018 • ~3 min
Discovering hidden stories in the Flint water crisis | MIT News
Graduate student Elena Sobrino looks beyond the headlines to study interactions between the city’s people and institutions.
Fatima Husain | MIT News correspondent
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June 24, 2018 • ~8 min
June 24, 2018 • ~8 min
Method man | MIT News
Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
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June 18, 2018 • ~6 min
June 18, 2018 • ~6 min
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