Work ready or not Recently, the McKinsey Center for Government released the second in its “Education to Employment” series of the reports. The first, “Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works,” released in December 2012, looked at global youth unemployment challenges and the roles of higher education institutions and employers in helping students to make the transition from […]
Ready or Not For those parents and school administrators who believe it is never too early for students to begin preparing for the PSAT and SAT, the College Board has begun offering a junior version of its marquee college-entrance exams â this one specifically for eighth graders.
What to Do If You’re Not Ready to Return to the Office “People are generally resistant to any requests in those situations,” says negotiation expert Parker Ellen, an assistant professor of management and at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
Covid-19 is rapidly spreading in America. The country does not look ready “The idea that people should have skin in the game kind of doesn’t work when you’re also playing with your neighbour’s skin,” says Wendy Parmet, a professor of public-health law at Northeastern University.
Hundreds of ready-to-eat foods are recalled over possible listeria contamination The extra risk with ready-to-eat food is that “people are not going to take a kill step,” like cooking, which would kill dangerous bacteria, says Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University.
Beyoncé is going on tour. Is Ticketmaster ready? It “will give Ticketmaster a chance to respond to problems that arise in the initial rollout,” said William Robertson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, noting that the company will also use technology to weed out bots.
KCRW Cameras, not cashiers, let you ‘Just Walk Out’ of Sherman Oaks Whole Foods The watching and tracking and palm-scanning actually doesn’t represent a big jump in Amazon’s data collection on its customers, says Christo Wilson, associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Purchase history, web clicks, consumer preferences — “They already have this information,” he says. “It’s just being gathered now in kind of a new way.”
The Doctor Will See You Now—Wait, Not You Researchers at Northeastern University have shown that people who perceive higher levels of partisan polarization are at greater risk for depression and anxiety. The pandemic has already taken years off our lives. Physicians who choose the partisan route of abandoning the unvaccinated risk worsening the nation’s physical and mental health.
50 Years After Vietnam, Thousands Flee Another Lost American War Public attitudes toward refugees already were shifting, said Dr. Parekh, a professor at Northeastern University. “Refugees start to look more foreign or dissimilar to people in the U.S.,” she said. “Instead of being seen as people courageously fleeing persecution, they are seen as people who will be an economic burden.”
As cases rise again, second thoughts on another lockdown “For the lockdowns, we know that there’s a variability in individuals that can work from home and those that can’t,” said Sam Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. That variability, he explained, leaves people of color and essential workers more exposed to the virus. Moreover, the economic costs of shutting down are felt most deeply by […]
How to make a face mask using what you already have at home A new study from Northeastern University, which has not yet been peer reviewed, suggests that wrapping a layer of nylon tights around the outside of homemade face masks offers even better protection.
Most Americans see artificial intelligence as a threat to jobs (just not theirs) The vast majority of Americans expect artificial intelligence to lead to job losses in the coming decade, but few see it coming for their own position. “Whether they know it or not, A.I. has moved into a big percent of Americans’ lives in one way or another already,” said Frank Newport, the editor in chief […]