Out with the old and in with the new I am sure we have all calmed down from the frothy excitement of this year’s NFL draft. Wasn’t it just thrilling when Commissioner Goodell announced each pick as if it were a “pick six” — an interception for a touchdown? The draft is a deadly dull exercise in economics. Any association of businesses that would […]
New York Attorney General takes initial step to prepare to seize Trump assets “They are complexly organized and he is not on paper the owner and therefore a judgment against him would not be executable directly against certain properties. Sorting this out is not going to be simple and it’s not going to be quick,” said Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University.
New York Post What your email signature says about you — and what to use instead Michael McCluskey, an associate teaching professor of English at Northeastern University, instructs his business classes the importance of spending time on an email signature. “You’re telling a story, whether or not you know it,” McCluskey told Northeastern Global News. “However you speak, however you write … it’s not just about the information you’re putting together. It’s […]
The Christmas miracle of a newly unearthed story by Louisa May Alcott Now a researcher at Northeastern University has discovered a huge cache of forgotten Alcott texts, including “The Phantom,” a story inspired by Charles Dickens and his “Carol.” This story offers fresh insights into Alcott as a young author — and also some timeless reminders about the holidays and their oldest themes.
Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/did-donald-trumps-indictments-boost-his-poll-numbers-1832694 “There could be kind of a snowball effect or a cumulative effect of, you know, multiple indictments and new information that could emerge that could kind of shake people from long-held views about Trump,” professor Costas Panagopoulos, an election campaign expert at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
Business Insider Journalists are becoming YouTubers, as creators say the platform holds the future for the industry Meg Heckman, an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University, explains that marginalized groups, including people of color, women, and LGBTQ people, have long been left out of traditional newsrooms, and, in response, they’ve created their own independent publications.
Knowridge Science Report Scientists find new way to prevent the common cold The samples were divided and cultured in Amiji’s Northeastern lab at the normal body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius as well as at 32 degrees Celsius, which is the plummeting temperature of the nasal pathway when people are outdoors in cold weather.
The State Department is ditching Times New Roman for Calibri “Opinions about taste prevail over research about what helps us read more efficiently,” says Brockett Horne, a professor at Northeastern University, whose research includes information design and typography. “For fonts, familiarity breeds legibility over the shape of any specific letters, and Times New Roman is a familiar old friend.”
‘If it’s not data driven, it’s a dog and pony show’: Wu’s new violence prevention guru shares his vision Faulk got involved in street outreach work in his early 20s after seeing too many people not reach their 21st birthday. Faulk, who holds a doctorate in law and policy from Northeastern University, said he wanted to “give back to a neighborhood that had given me so much.”
Army Corrects the Record About a Black Soldier Killed by a White Sergeant in 1941 Official status changes like that in Private King’s create “a new version of history,” said Margaret Burnham, the founder of the Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which first brought his story to light.
ABC News What the potential JetBlue and Spirit merger could mean for consumers “[The Department of Justice] will try to model what will happen with one fewer airline. What will that do to route structure, to load factors, capacity and fares,” Ravi Sarathy, professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, told ABC News. “And they’ll also try to model whether this will […]
Neiman Journalism Lab “Crushing resistance”: Yet again, newsrooms aren’t showing up to the industry’s largest diversity survey For this year’s report, which will be the first released since 2019, NLA said it reached out to thousands of news organizations and planned to have 2,500 print and online organizations participate. Meredith Clark, a professor at Northeastern University who has been the survey’s lead researcher since 2018, told the Associated Press in October that her goal was to reach […]