When Cerise Lim Jacobs entered Harvard Law School, she was unsettled by the Socratic method’s inquisitive nature, as the method uses argumentative dialogue to challenge a person’s beliefs.

A bill popularly known as Jacob’s Law, which requires location detector beacons on life jackets for offshore workers, has been signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards. The act is named after Jacob ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - In 2011, then governor Bobby Jindal signed Jacobs Law into effect which mandated beacons to be on life jackets of persons being transported in aircrafts on and offshore. Many ...

House Bill 161, also known as Jacob’s Law, was inspired by the death of a 2-year-old Dayton boy in August 2015. Jacob Barker was killed by his mother’s then-boyfriend, Justin Payne.

When Seema Kakade assumed her role as the director of the University of Maryland’s environmental law clinic, Wendy B. Jacobs welcomed her with open arms. “She specifically sought me out ...

It’s because most people have developed a heuristic – a mental shortcut used to solve problems – in which searching the internet becomes a nearly automatic solution to answer a myriad of ...

They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, even drawing inferences from small samples. Previously, thought-leaders like ...

Rebecca Hunnicutt says ‘Jacob’s Law’ would be in honor of her nephew, 6-year-old Jacob Hall. She says they haven’t reached out to any lawmakers yet, they just want the bill passed.

One of the methods used is heuristics. But what are heuristics, and how do they work? Randy Abrams, ESET's Director of Technical Education, finds the following definitions helpful in explaining ...