That is not the way of the T-ball. We have one practice, followed by six games of, “Now run. Run! No, not to third. OK, now stop! Wait there. Come back, come back! It was a FOUL BALL.” If the players could fully express it, their feedback would be, “You’re not teaching this the right […]

Moira Weigel Ms. Weigel is an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.

In some respects, it’s surprising that so many people do get another test after getting a positive result at home. David Lazer, co-author of the COVID States Project survey and a professor of political and computer sciences at Northeastern University, says he was surprised by his group’s findings; he expected more than 30% of people […]

Afterward, when they were asked to help a stranger, 69% of people in the first group agreed, compared with only 40% in the second group. Compassion—which Buddhist meditation magnifies—makes people kinder and less likely to seek revenge. In another experiment, my lab at Northeastern University found that people who had meditated for 8 weeks were […]

Chemically altering an organism in pursuit of a conservation goal “is not a radical departure from the kinds of things that conservationists are generally trying to do”, says Ron Sandler, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University who specialises in bioethics. And it’s much less radical than “assisted evolution”, where novel genes are inserted to […]

“So many people are sick of masks,” says Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. “But it’s not about that. It’s about who makes our public health policy. The judiciary – a 35-year-old unelected judge – or the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services?”

“Leaving this decision in place is dangerous,” said Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. “Whatever you think about mask mandates, this decision isn’t saying that mask mandates are a bad idea. … This is a decision that says CDC cannot impose mandates — no matter what. So […]

“This is part of a broad-scale attack on the federal government’s capacity to protect public health,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University. “This ruling is dangerous.”

An earlier study by other colleagues at UMass and Northeastern University randomly surveyed about 1,600 people in Boston, including about 145 Asian Americans, on their pandemic experiences. But the survey was in English and Spanish only — no Asian dialects — and included many who were college graduates or with advanced schooling, and did not […]

“We’re in such an extreme moment of labor shortage” in most industries and occupations, says Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor at Northeastern University who directs the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. As pandemic restrictions eased, the economy experienced “a ferocious tsunami of pent-up demand” for things like travel, restaurant meals, advertising, and home […]