Article U.S. News & World Report The irrational investor and behavioral finance In terms of how investors approach portfolios, forms that analyze behavioral biases can help people make smart decisions before they trip themselves up, says Paul Bolster, a finance professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “Simple asset allocation models take the form of a questionnaire,” Bolster says. “Responses are weighted and aggregated into a […]
Article Voice of America Trump follows Nixon’s lead in calling for law and order But there are limits to what a president can do to reduce crime. Unlike in some countries, most policing in the United States is done by agencies controlled by local governments, not the federal government. “Federal law enforcement handles less than 10 percent of crime,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Northeastern University Institute on […]
Article The Christian Science Monitor Should police live where they patrol? Baton Rouge mulls residency rule “It seems to me a mistake to limit yourself to only those who can afford to live here or chose to live here,” Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone told The Boston Globe. “It’s a little parochial to think we have to maintain our own population here and if you are not a Bostonian, you can’t […]
Article Your lottery odds are worse than you think “Reasonable consumers would not equate a tie with a win,” said Mark Gottlieb, the executive director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, which opposes lotteries as a regressive tax. “In most games and sports there are three categories for play outcomes: wins, losses, or ties. When the payout is equal to […]
Article New Scientist Sanders turns the heat up to make Clinton a real climate champ Thanks Bernie! Hillary Clinton’s tilt at the US presidency is poised to turn a deeper shade of green after pressure from her former rival. Democrats gathering at their national convention in Philadelphia on Monday are set to approve a platform that calls climate change “the defining challenge of our time”. A non-binding road map for […]
Article WGBH Ted Cruz looks like a genius after Trump’s NATO outburst There is no one in politics better at playing a bad hand than Ted Cruz. Even before we learned that Donald Trump had given a deeply disturbing interview to the New York Times in which he walked away from our NATO commitments, I thought getting booed off the stage was likely to prove a good […]
Article New Scientist Eating each other’s faeces helps earwig young survive famine “Unfortunately, we cannot go back in time to see what environmental factors, including diet, were responsible for the evolution of social tendencies,” says Rebeca Rosengaus at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “So the manipulations performed by the authors are only a first step to understand the dynamics between environmental stress and sociality.” Although the evolution of any trait is […]
Article Columbia Journalism Review TV networks have eyes everywhere at RNC Traditionally, broadcast media honors requests not to be filmed, like when videographers record B-roll footage of a day at the beach, says Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who runs the blog MediaNation (no relation to ABC’s Kennedy). But when there’s a small camera mounted to a building, how does someone request they not […]
Article ‘To The Secretary’ Tries To Unwind The Tangles Of Diplomacy It’s a question about which any one book can only scratch the surface. To the Secretary seems inclined to answer, “Indefinitely,” and lays out a sampler of international examples with varying levels of candor. There are major incidents (power games in post-cyclone Burma spelled the end of a regime). There are sly asides (a diplomat […]
Article PolitiFact ‘Neighborhoods have become more violent’ under Obama’s watch “You need to take six months of crime data, not just with a grain of salt but the entire shaker,” said James Alan Fox, the interim director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. “I can point to situations where crime patterns seen for the first six months are reversed once the […]
Article Nature News The bicycle problem that nearly broke mathematics Papadopoulos, who now has a teaching position at Northeastern University in Boston, is trying to get comfortable with academia once again. He’s establishing collaborations, and testing out long-dormant ideas about why some bicycles wobble at high speed7. He believes he can eliminate speed wobble with a damper to soak up vibrations in the seat post. […]
Article Hartford Business Journal How U.S. Army basic training turns diverse groups into teams We know that diverse teams are more creative and productive than homogenous teams, but how do you get individuals who aren’t alike working together smoothly? As I’ve seen from teaching over 960 recruits as a basic-training company commander in the U.S. Army, people from various backgrounds struggle to discover shared interests during the early stages […]