Forbes How To Make Yourself Robot-Proof Rather than thinking about education as something that’s finished at college or graduate school, we have entered a period of history in which learning has to be embraced as a lifelong process. Schools, in particular, need to emphasize early on how to help learners embrace how to think creatively throughout life. So argues Joseph E. […]
Christian Science Monitor Legal fights and threats to his life: an environmental activist in self-exile Alfred Brownell’s work has made him many powerful enemies. So when he and his family stepped off a plane in the United States on the coldest day of 2016, back home in Liberia he was a wanted man… “There’s nothing more I want to do now than be in Liberia,” he says in his office […]
Bustle This Letter Calling Out “Sexist” 2020 Coverage Demands Women Candidates Get Treated Fairly In their third point, the groups cited a study from the Northeastern University’s School of Journalism which stated that women on the 2020 campaign trail weren’t being treated as fairly as their male counterparts. By conducting a text analysis of news articles, researchers found that female candidates were “consistently” treated negatively in the press. This problem […]
President Donald Trump tees up the strangest test yet of executive privilege “Once the cat is out of the bag, you can’t put the cat back in,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law. “But the question is: is all of the cat out of the bag, or just the tail?”
Ars Technica The radio navigation planes use to land safely is insecure and can be hacked The researchers, from Northeastern University in Boston, consulted a pilot and security expert during their work, and all are careful to note that this kind of spoofing isn’t likely to cause a plane to crash in most cases. ILS malfunctions are a known threat to aviation safety, and experienced pilots receive extensive training in how […]
Northeastern Researchers Will Be First to Use Data From Facebook With a grant from the Social Science Research Council and Social Science One, researchers at Northeastern University will be among the very first academics to use data from Facebook to explore how information—and misinformation—travels online.
Quartz Going fishing? Watch out for chemical weapons “The combination of mobilizing and waging a world war and the lack of concern in those days for the environment generally, and the marine environment specifically, meant that there were accidents and sometimes dumping of materials that are still sitting on the bottom of harbors and near shore where local dredges operate,” Flynn, now a […]
‘Oh, My God, Where Is This Going?’ When Computer-Science Majors Take Improv Northeastern University forces students to come out of their shells and exercise creative play in front of classmates before getting their diploma.
Squid Share a Colorful Trick With Peacocks In search of answers, Leila Deravi, a professor of chemistry at Northeastern University and an author of the new paper, and her collaborators at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Ma., and elsewhere put squid skin under the microscope and saw something reflective on the surface of the chromatophores. As they moved a beam […]
How to Save the News Media Policy makers could do more, much more, to help the collapsing news industry, which is pulling down America’s civic culture with it, says Northeastern assistant professor John Wihbey.
Facebook’s ad system seems to discriminate by race and gender A paper published on April 3rd by researchers from Northeastern University in Boston, the University of Southern California and Upturn, a Washington-based advocacy group, appears to add weight to HUD’s claim.The research team, which is led by two computer scientists, Muhammad Ali and Piotr Sapiezynski of Northeastern, concludes that Facebook’s own systems are influenced by […]
What’s Pink and Pinstriped and Digests Wood? This New Shipworm The discovery, which was reported in the journal PeerJ on Thursday, occurred during a feverish episode of wading through mangroves and scuba diving in coastal waters looking for wood that contained shipworm burrows. The [Northeastern] team brought their finds to the parking lot of a beachgoers’ hotel, where, wearing headlamps and wielding axes, they extracted […]