PCWorld Wi-Fi-Extending Robot Sniffs Out Wireless Networks, Is Built Like a Tank If you’ve ever lived or stayed in an area with a limited Internet connection or a 3G dead zone, you’ll know exactly how frustrating it can be even to just quickly check your emails. Perhaps people living in such areas should invest in something like the Wi-Fi Extending Robot. This tank-like machine by students at […]
CBS Boston Summer Work: Fewer Summer Jobs Available Today BOSTON (CBS) – Just ten years ago, summer work was a rite of passage for teens. These days, that’s not the case. Northeastern University Professor Andrew Sum, who heads up the Center for Labor Market Studies, routinely crunches the numbers. “Of all the age groups in the country, the employment rate for teens varies more […]
Experts: Don’t blame killers’ families Americans are mourning along with victims’ families in the wake of the Aurora movie theater shootings. But what should our feelings be toward the family of James Holmes, the shooting suspect? Experts who study shooting rampages and killing sprees say we should mourn for them too. “We have lots of sympathy for the families of […]
The Huffington Post UK Are Mass Killings Contagious? Random shooting of strangers in public spaces by a lone gunman might dominate the headlines, but, (anti-gun-control lobby in the USA please note) other kinds of mass killing are actually more common. Disaffected employees who return to shoot the boss and co-workers after being sacked, alienated husbands who slay entire families before turning the gun […]
CBS News Colorado Theater Shooting: Does uttering the name “James Holmes” glorify the alleged killer’s crime? As soon as America knew the name of the man who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado movie theater Friday, the brother of Jessica Ghawi, one of the victims of the massacre, asked us to forget it. “I don’t want to media to be saturated with the shooter’s name,” Jordan Ghawi told Anderson Cooper. Jack […]
The Denver Post Criminology professor says interpreting any expression is subjective In blog posts, at water coolers and on websites, people are endlessly speculating about the demeanor of shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes in his first courtroom appearance Monday. He looked confused, sad, lost or exhausted, some said. Others thought he looked drugged, and wondered how that might be possible. Still others thought he was faking […]
New York Daily News Aurora massacre suspect James Holmes: Understanding the mind of the alleged mass killer In some respects, the alleged mass murderer in Aurora, Colo. fits a profile of the typical mass killer that my colleague James Alan Fox and I developed some 30 years ago. In all likelihood, the Colorado killer was depressed and socially isolated, having no place to turn when he got into trouble. In addition, he […]
How Can We Prevent Mass Killings Like Aurora? On the morning of the latest mass shooting, in a place that has become synonymous with tragedy, Tom Mauser’s phone started ringing at 5 a.m. When he turned on the news his first thought was “Oh God,” followed by an immediate: “Not again.” “We’re not going to turn our country into one big fortress,” said […]
Accused Colorado killer no easy fit for mass murderer profile As experts in forensic psychiatry try to figure out from afar what is wrong with James Holmes, they are focusing on three details of the shooting: The targets were strangers to the killer, not colleagues or acquaintances; the shooter did not commit suicide or invite his own death at the hands of police; and Holmes […]
row2k row2k Starting Five: Will Miller 1. What inspired you to go to your first rowing practice; was there anything memorable about it? To tell you the truth, I don’t really remember when my first practice was. I grew up with my dad coaching and running a rowing camp in Maine and I have pictures of myself sitting in a shell […]
Gizmodo Wi-Fi Extending Robot Makes It Easy To Set Up a Wireless Network In a Warzone As part of their senior design project at Northeastern University, Glen Chiachhieri and seven other computer and electrical engineering students built this Wi-Fi repeating robot that’s designed to make it easier to deploy a wireless network in dangerous or hazardous places.
Condo prices in Boston hit a high Condominium values in Boston’s core reached a record high during the second quarter of this year as eager buyers drove up sales, according to data scheduled to be released Tuesday. The increase adds to mounting evidence that the state’s housing market is on the mend, housing specialists said. “The feeling out there is prices are […]