The compromise announced by the Boy Scouts of America on Thursday is untenable. And that is precisely why it’s good news. More than 60 percent of the organization’s national leadership voted to approve a policy ending discrimination against openly gay scouts while keeping in place the ban against gay adult leaders. With the BSA finally dragging itself […]

Homeland security expert Stephen Flynn says neglecting infrastructure may have dire consequences.  

Researchers at Northeastern University are compiling a digital archive devoted to the Boston Marathon bombings, the university announced today in a statement. The “Our Marathon” project is sponsored by Northeastern’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, and will include photos, videos, and social media related to the attacks. The team will hold a series of public outreach events […]

A new economic forecast released by the New England Economic Partnership offers an optimistic outlook for  Massachusetts and for the region as a whole over the next five years. Anchored by a projected rise in employment and deliberate but steady economic growth, the forecast points to a surge in manufacturing, of all things, as a catalyst. Guests Alan Clayton-Matthews, […]

Northeastern University announced today that it is launching a campaign to raise $1 billion by 2017, according to a statement on the university’s website. The university said in the statement that it plans to fundraise $500 million in philanthropic donations and $500 mil­lion through gov­ern­ment and industry part­ner­ships. The “Empower” campaign will fund university-wide initiatives, particularly new […]

Some of the messages are typical of a college-age teenager, talking about doing laundry and playing beer pong. But over time, Tsarnaev’s tweets are also evidence of a transformation. Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox analyzed Tsarnaev’s writings. “You see throughout these tweets a mixture of ordinary activities and partying for example,  yet a growing […]

With Lyme disease the fastest growing vector-borne illness in the nation, the urgency of advancing research is greater than ever before. Lyme Research Alliance is awarding half a million dollars to fund six promising studies to find a reliable diagnostic test and effective treatment options for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. The Lyme Research Alliance (LRA), one […]

Holding several part-time jobs, living with friends, making do without employer-provided benefits and never expecting to achieve your parents’ standard of living: it’s all become routine for today’s youngest entrants into the job market. But in a semi-recessionary, post-union, without-a-safety-net era, workers twice their age are also getting used to the getting-by lifestyle. Unemployment is […]

Following the news last week that the Department of Justice had secretly obtained records of phone calls made by the Associated Press in an attempt to find an information leak, the New Yorker magazine launched an online scheme to receive sensitive documents and preserve the identity of their sources. The service, called Strongbox, is based on a project […]

Danger can lurk onboard cruise ships too, according to critics, especially because of heavy drinking and the cut-loose atmosphere of some ships. Rates for sexual assault on cruise ships seem to be about 50% higher than on land, according to Ross Klein, a professor at Memorial University in Newfoundland, who studies the cruise industry. The […]

HONG KONG — The Boston Marathon bombings last month hit the home of some of the world’s greatest universities. As the terror and violence played out in America’s education and research hub, each twist and turn seemed to touch on the very campuses that draw the best and brightest from across the globe.

Nonverbal cues to all kinds of unconscious giveaways tend to occur in clusters – a group of movements, postures and actions that collectively point to a particular state of mind. This is crucially true of dishonesty, where one specific cluster of nonverbal signals has been proven statistically to accompany dishonesty. These are: hand touching, face […]