There seems to be pessimism in the air regarding the economic prospects of the West and by extension the world. In its recent report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) revised downward its estimates of growth for many countries. It lowered the overall growth rate forecast of the Euro Zone for 2013 and […]

“This is penny-wise and pound-foolish,” said Lynne Sarikas, director of the MBA Career Center at Northeastern University. “If you take away sick leave, you get people coming to work sick who then get other people sick.” “What you save on not paying the first person to stay home you lose many times over with other […]

Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin agrees environmental influences determine whether a psychopath will go on to be violent, but discredits Fallon’s theory The author of a book about mass murderers, “Extreme Killing,” Levin said most serial killers are in their 30s and 40s. “You can determine the biological roots of psychopathy, including the lack of […]

“That’s the conundrum of domestic violence in general. This is about how badly the whole country handles it,” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director the Center for Sport and Society at Northeastern University in Boston. “This is big conversation, not just around the Jovan Belcher situation, but around the acculturation of young boys, and why we […]

Many people may think of gratitude as a “passive” gesture — you wait for something good, then feel grateful, said David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, in Boston. DeSteno studies the effects that thankfulness can have on people’s behavior. But a growing body of research is suggesting the opposite is true, according […]

Warren and Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, said they expect housing inventory to increase this spring, as buyers continue to bid above asking prices for months and potential sellers realize they can recoup their investments — and more. “We’re going to see a significant amount […]

James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston, said Nancy Lanza didn’t ignore her son’s psychological problems and can’t be blamed for his actions. “She was a victim, not an accessory,” he said. “We can easily second-guess parents, and there’s a lot there we can question, but the fact of the matter is […]

Some Democrats, such as Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988 and a former governor of Massachusetts, said the issue for Obamacare is in part one of framing. Democrats “have not done a very good job” of emphasizing that the law benefits working families most, Dukakis said. “There are a lot of middle class folks with […]

Researchers at Northeastern University explored this old-school viral spread, by studying 41,829 old newspapers to examine how the old gray ladies facilitated the transfer of articles and ideas across America before the Civil War. Just as with memes, the internet usually gets too much credit for killing newspapers. The newspaper that was left to be felled by Craigslist […]

A lot of marine scientists are more than happy to spend time in the ocean, placing instruments, taking samples, and getting a firsthand look around. Mark Patterson, an affable Harvard-educated professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, takes it a bit farther. He’s lived on the seabed for a grand total of 87 days. […]

A team led by a Northeastern University professor may have altered the way we look at drug development for HIV by uncovering some unusual properties of a human protein called APOBEC3G (A3G). In an article published in Nature Chemistry, Prof. Mark Williams and his graduate student Kathy Chaurasiya, along with several collaborators, show how these unusual […]

“There’s a visceral reaction many people have to being monitored,” says Stephen Intille, associate professor at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Sciences and a leading researcher in the field of personal health informatics. “We need to stay away from stigmatizing these innovations. The better way to think of them is like advanced answering […]