How is this a blockbuster deal? They are just giving away another superstar. That's not a deal.

It’s a shocking Devers trade, especially the timing, but can you really be shocked it happened? These owners had already revealed who they were. Post-2018 the Red Sox became part of the FSG business portfolio and that’s it. It’s a special team that’s NOT special to them anymore.

Can't spell out death or sex on this app. Far too controversial.

"A teenager on his way to volleyball practice, a young father picking up baby formula and construction workers on their way to job sites." These are Trump's targets, not the violent criminals he alleged. In the end, we will all be less safe. Read on. washingtonpost.com/immigration/20…

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Taylor & Francis: $800M Wiley: $1.8 billion What they pay: Academic authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0

A woman hit her son in a grocery store parking lot. She calls it a spanking. The state says it was child abuse. The story of one Maine woman’s fight to get her son back offers a rare glimpse inside the state’s secretive child welfare system. The Maine Monitor  newscentermaine.com/article/news/r…

“Until 2009, the lengthier sentences handed down during the preceding crime wave and the tendency of released prisoners to be re-incarcerated kept imprisonment rising even as crime declined," Keith Humphreys writes. But not anymore: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Y’all, I wrote a book! The Science of Second Chances is based on my decades of work studying crime and criminal behavior, first as an economics professor and now as a policy expert at Arnold Ventures. It shares what we know from cutting-edge research about how to intervene at

Looks like a must read from Matt DeLisi, Ph.D.

Left: New York Times, December 2, 1923. Right: CNN, July 2, 2025.

Fireworks have a vibrant history, and take unique chemical balances to create patriotic colors. How they work (and why they aren't so often blue): buff.ly/uZwmIDA #FourthofJuly #fireworks

Interesting paper on why people follow rules: Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.

My right index finger gonna be eating goood this month!

“This is a once-in-a-hundred-years discovery.” scim.ag/4nxGTfE News from Science

UMaine Showcase: 10 Batters faced 3K 2BB 0H 0R

Hey Grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? doesn’t need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just say who it was

Happy to be a part of this brand new issue of the Annals on crime prevention and social impact. Check it out. Lots of great contributions from your favorite criminologists! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

PhD students working on topics related to crime & the criminal justice system in the US: Join us for a research workshop this October! We're bringing y'all together so that you can meet each other, and (selfishly) so the Arnold Ventures CJ team can meet you. Sign up by