“I think that he is definitely viewing this as, ‘This is emphasis. You are going to have to slow down and read this. You are going to have to pay attention to this,’” said Cynthia Baron, the academic director of digital media programs in Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies.

In an email sent just days after McCaskill won re-election in 2012 over the infamously gaffe-prone Rep. Todd Akin, a fellow law professor from Boston ended a discussion of Supreme Court cases with a brief question for Hawley. “Also, are you running against mccaskill in 2018?,” Northeastern University’s Dan Urman, wrote to Hawley. “Akin did a […]

On the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode’s Kara Swisher talked with Northeastern University researchers Christo Wilson and David Choffnes about a popular online conspiracy theory: Smartphones are secretly turning on their microphones to record conversations and serve us more targeted ads. Wilson and Choffnes just completed a year-long investigation into 17,000 of the most popular Android apps; […]

The robot can’t be tethered for hardwired communication, on account of the ice, and radio waves don’t work underwater. So instead, Seabed sends signals of sound (like MIT’s hypnotic fish robot). Even then, the robot isn’t always a reliable communicator. “If we are lucky, we get a 256 byte packet once every minute,” says Northeastern University […]

The divide between those who have access to the best schools and those who don’t could not be more stark. More than 80 percent of kindergarten students in Charlestown, the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, and central Boston who enroll in the city’s school system attend a high-quality school — as measured by test scores — […]

Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said the ruling is inconsistent. He said if Massachusetts allows the involuntary commitment of people to addiction treatment because their substance use is uncontrollable, then it’s not logical to say that someone can willfully violate a court order to remain drug-free.

Hillary Chute, distinguished professor of English and art and design at Northeastern University, packs a pen and paper, as well as anything she can amuse yourself with. Chute is the author of the book Why Comics? Mertan carries sunscreen, as some of the lines snake outside, and the San Diego sun can be unforgiving. Violet Krueger, who […]

In February a Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults showed 48 percent of Americans support universal basic income.