Handguns are the new home security “On average, the gun imperils everyone in the home more than it protects them,” said Matthew Miller, a professor at Northeastern University and an author of the 2015 study. “If you can get people to understand the risk that they are assuming and imposing on people in their home, you can actually save lives.”
Democrats — the party of the professional class? Michael S. Dukakis, the Democrats’ 1988 presidential nominee, won the state by 5 percentage points. Mitt Romney — the Republicans’ presidential nominee 24 years later and a figure with no plausible personal or cultural affinity with voters here — won all 55 counties in the state in the last election, taking West Virginia’s five electoral […]
This debate question may be the most impactful — ever ‘‘A lot of times with the debates there isn’t journalism happening at the same time,’’ said Alan Schroeder, author of ‘‘Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV.’’ “Even though the moderators are journalists, they’re stepping into a different role. That was basically an interview style of moderating, where you’re drawing out the candidate and pressing […]
Tackling Trump’s ‘Locker Room’ Culture Of Casual Misogyny To Slow Rampant Assault, Rape Last year, our office teamed up with The New England Patriots to launch “Game Change,” a first-in-the-nation public/private partnership that brings anti-violence trainings to high schools across the state, using an interactive curriculum designed by Mentors in Violence Prevention at Northeastern University. We’re training students to lead conversations between young men and young women that […]
Science Blog Researchers use ‘robomussels’ to monitor climate change Tiny robots have been helping researchers study how climate change affects biodiversity. Developed by Northeastern University scientist Brian Helmuth, the “robomussels” have the shape, size, and color of actual mussels, with miniature built-in sensors that track temperatures inside the mussel beds.
Questions Plague DOJ Over Inaction In Orange County’s Jail Informant Scandal “I find the DOJ’s indecision rather baffling,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written at length about prosecutorial misconduct, told HuffPost in an email. “Both the breadth of the scandal (the number of informants and government officials potentially involved) and the depth (touching upon capital and other serious cases) cry out […]
Boston Herald Drones logical next step for terrorists The drone is the “natural evolution of terror attacks,” said Northeastern University terrorism expert Max Abrahms. “There’s a growing threat that the terrorists are going to be lethal from the sky and this is a natural evolution of where we are headed technologically in the world,” Abrahms said. “I can imagine, especially in cases where […]
PolitiFact Obama says terrorism worldwide has not increased substantially since he took office On top of attacks and fatalities rising, terrorist arrests are also up, noted Max Abrahms, a political science assistant professor at Northeastern University. A December 2015 report from the Program on Extremism at George Washington University said 56 individuals were arrested in 2015 in the United States for ISIS-related activities, “the largest number of terrorism […]
Yahoo! NASH ETF: A Flawed Concept, or Ahead of Its Time? Liquidity problems. Paul Bolster, professor of finance at Northeastern University in Boston, says he is concerned about the fund’s lack of liquidity because it is thinly traded making its trading volume too low be a reasonable investment vehicle. “Over the past year, it averaged less than 1,000 shares of daily volume and did not trade […]
CCTV China invests big in Cambodia’s newest sugar mill For a deeper analysis of China-Cambodia economic relations, CCTV America’s Rachelle Akuffo interviewed Ravi Ramamurti, director at the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University.
Voice of America Divided America: Temperatures rise, US splits Now “we see partisan polarization or ideological polarization,” said Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University. The split with science is most visible and strident when it comes to climate change because the nature of the global problem requires communal joint action, and “for conservatives that’s especially difficult to accept,” Nisbet said. Climate change […]
TechTarget New Northeastern curriculum aimed at women in computer science Concerned about the percentage of women working in tech, Carla Brodley has created curriculum designed to expose students to computer science and, particularly, inspire women.