OK — so, not quite a movie. But this data visualization video by David Lazer, Mauro Martino, Yu-ru Lin of Northeastern University is pretty darned cool — and shows how, over time, major presidential candidates have raised money and from where. Give it a look yourself: http://bit.ly/KY0Sgw

When Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill came up with the BRICs concept in 2001, it served as shorthand for a group of economies that deserved special attention even if they weren’t quite ready to join South Korea and Mexico as new entrants to the OECD group of developed economies.

Pundits are still arguing over the root causes of the financial crisis. The short list of usual suspects is, in no particular order, greed, crazy leverage, unregulated derivatives, credit collapse, and Bernie Madoff.

A report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies finds that less than 30 percent of U.S. teens had jobs in the summers of 2010 and 2011. Though the employment outlook is bleak, there are some strategies for navigating the summer job market.

Several law schools have allied to make clinics, simulations and other hands-on courses the norm, not an afterthought.

The positive impact of the “Play Ball” initiative on the scholastic performance of youngsters in Boston’s middle schools (see Globe story) is stunning, but hardly surprising. For too many years, we have over-emphasized standardized test scores — treating them as the gold standard, if not the only standard, for assessing quality in education — at […]

Physicist Albert-László Barabási of Northeastern University is studying diseases as phenomena that arise when biological networks fail. In this talk from the last TEDMED, Dr. Barabási talks about how decoding the human genome was expected to quickly lead to new therapies, but the reality turned out to be more complicated and that studying intracellular protein […]

President Obama’s reelection campaign opened a new front against Mitt Romney on his home turf Wednesday, calling Romney’s tenure as Massachusetts governor a time of grand gestures and empty economic promises that should be a warning sign for the nation.

The Obama campaign’s attempt to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s governorship quickly descended into spectacle Thursday. As the president’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, made his case in front of the state house in Boston, he was nearly drowned out by pro-Romney hecklers chanting slogans. From the sidelines, a clean-cut young man in a blue […]

The smartphone is a beautiful thing. Part phone, part Web browser, part GPS, part personal organizer — we have begun to expect our phones  to do just about anything to help make our lives easier.

Co-op law school programs, after the Massachusetts Bar Association recognized Northeastern University School of Law’s Cooperative Legal Education Program as an “enviable” model. After students’ first year of school, students in the program alternat quarters between academic study and with an employer. On average, 40 percent of students at post-graduate positions with their former co-op […]

Mike Behan spends six months out of the year in Njabini, Kenya. But it’s no safari vacation. Behan, 21, is the cofounder and CEO of Njabini Apparel, a nonprofit company selling handcrafted accessories made by landless and handicapped mothers in the Kenyan settlement.