Investor Peter Thiel has generated attention by making some provocative claims about America’s colleges and universities. Thiel has labeled U.S. higher education “a bubble in the classic sense,” and believes that college degrees are “overvalued.”

Companies that are looking for a good deal aren’t seeing one in new workers.

Summer break is officially here for most American students: time off from early mornings, hitting the books, and taking tests. In years past, many teens looked to the summer months as a time to increase the hours they worked at their part-time jobs or take on summer gigs, such as babysitting, lifeguarding, and festival work. […]

A leading Arab American group dropped a prominent Syrian-American musician from performing at their annual convention in a dispute over a freedom-tinged song that he was set to perform.

Late last month, smack in the middle of the DiMasi trial and right around the time we learned of Arnold’s infidelity, a Science study out of Northeastern University popped into the world and promptly landed itself in headlines across the blogosphere. The title, “€œThe Visual Impact of Gossip,”€ pretty much explains its popularity off the […]

When Amy Black boarded a plane for Nashville, Tenn., last fall, she had no idea -Music City was about to become her personal vortex. Following the route to songwriting renown blazed by fellow New Englanders Lori McKenna and Mary Gauthier, the Lowell resident went to the Americana Music -Association conference to network and see whether […]

As basketball star LeBron James tries to take a step closer to the championship that has so far eluded him in Game 4 of the NBA Finals Tuesday, his off-the-court activities are drawing the ire of a number of pediatricians nationwide.

When Bruins forward Nathan Horton took a hit Monday night, the fans felt it.

For some reason of late, I’ve noticed the tagline of the automobile insurance company, Esurance. In case you haven’t seen it, it goes like this: “Technology when you want it, people when you don’t.” When I first heard this, I thought it would be a good tagline for connected health. Then I pondered further and […]

The law firm of Brookline resident and Boston attorney Howard Friedman was honored with the Pro Bono Award for Law Firms from the Massachusetts Bar Association at the Access to Justice Awards last month.

Rumor has it that humans are predisposed to gossip. Now, research has it, too.

Former Massachussetts governor–and former presidential candidate–Michael Dukakis tells Eliot that former Gov. Mitt Romney is the proverbial weather vane. Dukakis says, “He’s smart, he’s slick–unfortuntately, he’s slippery.”