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Why do men shout at women in the street?
From whistling to catcalling, and even groping, street harassment is an everyday reality for many women around the world. But now a new wave of feminist groups are organising to stop it.
Detroit Free Press
Plan to put more Detroit cops on streets may just be a bandage, experts say
Detroit’s plan to put more police officers on the streets in response to a string of deadly shootings during the weekend may work as a short-term fix, but it may cost the city more in terms of money and likely won’t prevent more killings, according to criminologists, police officers and council members.
ESPN
Next level
If you’re an athlete, your skills, ambition and work ethic are supposed to determine your career path, rather than nepotism or insider connections. Which means you can come from anywhere and succeed. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, playing soccer with migrant kids from across the Mexican border. LeBron James […]
What the University of the Future Will Look Like
Northeastern University points in this direction with its co-op model, but still treats work and study as separate. The applied liberal-arts university would integrate them.
Highly successful people use this mental shift to get ahead of stress at work, says neuroscientist
The best strategy for tackling those moments of stress actually involves some preparation: Highly successful people get ahead of their unsteadiness with a key mindset shift, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist, author and psychology professor at Northeastern University.
8 Greater Boston film festivals to check out this fall
For a festival preview event on Sept. 29, BAAFF will screen the East Coast premiere of “The Oath of the Sword” (1914), one of the earliest known Asian American film productions. Held at Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium, a panel discussion will follow.
‘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.”
Scientists have come up with a new steel that is ultratough, yet stretchable
The team – from Northeastern University in Shenyang, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works in eastern China, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany – published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday.
Doctor Suggests Bad Yankee Candle Reviews Could Mean COVID is Coming Back
Based on @drewtoothpaste’s tweet, assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, Nicholas Beauchamp set to work. He wrote a paper on the phenomenon seemingly confirming that there is in fact a clear link. It appears that an upturn in negative reviews has become a predictive indicator in signaling that a COVID surge is coming.
Spotify CEO says canceling Joe Rogan isn’t ‘the answer’
The streaming site also has to decide whether offensive words are allowable elsewhere on its app, where songs with racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant messages are available, said John Wihbey, a Northeastern University professor and specialist in emerging technologies. “There’s some real self-examination to be doing beyond Joe,” Wihbey said Sunday. “This is a big moment […]
Digiday
CNN is turning its 5 Things newsletter into a franchise that spans podcasting and TV
CNN’s core business model “is in danger” due to cord-cutters who are moving to streaming TV services, said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. “It makes sense for the network to experiment with different kinds of news products that aren’t dependent on cable,” he said.
In good health: meet the people who have quit their jobs to join the NHS
“It’s not terribly surprising,” says Prof Paula Caliguiri of Northeastern University in Boston, US, and the author of Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. Stuck at home, unable to leave the house during those early, fear-filled months of lockdown, many people looked at the […]