Why Do Terrorists So Often Go For Planes? Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks, airports have probably been the most heavily guarded sites when it comes to preventing terrorist attacks.
Patriot Ledger COMMENTARY: Morgan Chase shows how little we have learned Just when you thought America’s megabanks were safe and sound, JPMorgan Chase disclosed that it had lost at least $2 billion in just six weeks. The loss was suffered on high-risk investments in a portfolio of complex financial instruments known as derivatives. Ironically, it was incurred by a trading group within the bank that was […]
The Boston Herald Northeastern crew fills a very tall order One would not be too off the mark to suggest 6-foot-10 Cameron Buchan was the biggest recruit for the Northeastern University crew program in a long time. Pardon the pun, but the mammoth athlete backs up the adage that rowers are found wherever you find them.
Internships may slow Boston’s student ‘brain drain’ Sydney Arbelbide graduated from Northeastern University last year with a degree in systems engineering and a job offer in Silicon Valley from Google Inc. But she turned down the Internet search giant for a small tech firm in Boston.
Adotas Starting Simple With Gamification The term “gamification” can be one of the most misunderstood marketing and engagement strategies employed today. Many marketers think gamification literally means creating a game to engage with customers or employees. And, yes, it can mean that.
EconoSTATS Europe on the Brink (Again) Once again there is talk of a major financial crisis in Europe. Many observers expect that Europe will muddle through and push the problem further down the road, as it has for the past two years. But this time really could be different.
Health care lessons from Weld Bill Weld and I didn’t agree on much, but he did something in his first term as Massachusetts governor that should be required reading for anybody involved in the current debate over how to control health costs in the Commonwealth.
When You Lose Your Sport, What Happens To Your Self? I saw this flyer recently on my gym’s bulletin board. The loneliness and loss of identity it describes are surely shared by a great many people who have to leave sports, famous or not, but what comes to mind is the suicide of Junior Seau, the 43-year-old former NFL player who shot himself in the chest […]
NBC Bay Area Homeland Security Expert Discusses Foiled Bomb Plot NBC Bay Area’s Brent Cannon speaks with Stephen Flynn, Co-founder of the Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University, about the foiled airplane bomb plot.
Khaleej Times The goodness of gossip Yes, you read right. Recent research does actually offer a positive spin to this age-old practice — one that goes beyond the rumours and tall tales.
Minyanville.com Less Evolved Companies: Five Firms on the Other Side of the Gay Rights Movement President Obama made history yesterday by becoming the first-ever sitting president to declare his support for same-sex marriage.
American Ethnologist Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise to a widespread logic of networking within the movements for global justice of the 1990s–2000s, I argue that social media have contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the more recent […]