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Giving up the booze
After those years of excess, it’s understandable that many people wanted to get sober or curb their drinking, said Malcolm Purinton, a beer historian at Northeastern University.
Drug Users Are Being Sentenced to Forced Rehab. But Does It Work?
Thirty-five states now allow individuals to petition a civil judge to order a family member or loved one into treatment via a conservatorship, up from 28 states that had similar laws on the books in 2011, according to researchers at Northeastern University School of Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab. And in states without civil […]
Records paint bleak picture of suspect in serial killings
Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has written several books about serial killings, said such crimes are often motivated by the killer’s need to avenge a catastrophic loss in their lives such as losing a job, falling deeply into debt or breaking up with a romantic partner.
WGBH
Marco’s meltdown, Trump’s triumph, and more
I am writing this in a Best Western, wondering how I’m going to get to downtown Washington later today given that the Metro—shut down lest it burst into flames yet again—makes the MBTA look like a model of competence and efficiency. Hunter Thompson used to grab the Gideons Bible at moments like this and try […]
Why you should train for empathy, and how to do it
Behavioral studies have shown similar findings. For example, in a study conducted by Paul Condon and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern University, and Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital, the research team sent a group of people to an eight-week mindfulness training course. Afterwards, they tested the people who received the mindfulness training versus people who […]
Favorites of ‘Our Mockingbird’ director
On July 14, more than five decades after her debut novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” first appeared, 89-year-old Harper Lee’s long-awaited follow-up “Go Set a Watchman” will finally be published. On that same date at 8 p.m., PBS World Channel’s “America Reframed” will air Sandra Jaffe’s “Our Mockingbird,” a documentary that shows how Lee’s beloved […]
Uncle Sam wants YOU to read ‘popular’ scholarly books
Here is a full list of the newly named Public Scholars, their professional affiliations, book titles and grant amounts: • Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo, “Animals in the History of the United States,” $50,400. • Edward Ball, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., “Constant LeCorgne (1832-1886): Biography of a Klansman,” $50,400. • Nicholas Basbanes, independent scholar, North […]
Twitter and blogs are not add-ons to research
“The best (and most successful) academics are the ones who are so caught up in the importance of their work, so caught up with their simple passion for a subject, that they publicise it with every breath,” Professor Hitchcock says. He praises the early career scholars who have dismissed concerns that exposing their research too […]
WGBH
Marathon bombing memorial ideas abound- for now
In the run-up to this year’s Boston Marathon, commemorations of last year’s bombings and tributes to the survivors have been plentiful — and a new exhibit at the Boston Public Library may be the most dramatic memorial yet. But plans for a permanent memorial remain unclear. Battered old running shoes, handwritten notes of support and […]
Clarion Ledger
Vail journals: Murder, drinking animal blood
Jack Levin, author of the 2008 book, “Serial Killers and Sadistic Murders — Up Close and Personal,” said he found that more than half of serial killers he studied had abused animals, many of them maximizing the suffering of dogs and cats. He did a study comparing 150 animal abusers to those who never abused […]
Why Won’t Bullfrogs Jump For Science?
The single best jump ever recorded by a laboratory bullfrog is 1.3 meters. Cuban tree frogs, on the other hand, can leap up to 1.7 meters. Scientists have previously explained this variation in maximum jump ability between different frogs as an evolutionary tradeoff: Bullfrogs can swim better. But what if the lab frogs were just […]
Scientific American
Psychologist Uncover Hidden Signals of Trust — Using a Robot
“In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word.” Neville Chamberlain’s first impression of Adolf Hitler can charitably be described as an error in judgment. Rarely do our own miscalculations […]