Massachusetts AFL-CIO comes to defense of five Teamsters charged in extortion case Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor who lectures about criminal prosecutions, said third-party filings are typically made before appeals courts or before states’ and the nation’s highest court because the “stakes are higher” and the decisions have wider implications. But, he said, the union’s decision to intervene in the case now before a trial […]
Gender bias exists in professor evaluations Just like internal teaching evaluations, Viacom’s Rate My Professors gives students a platform to say whatever is on their minds, with anonymity and without fear of retribution. Many professors have wondered (based on some damningevidence) how strong a role gender bias plays in evaluations. Since Rate My Professors is the only place that puts large […]
Boston startup TVision Insights adds more data to TV advertising Nielsen ratings are still used for TV. But Schiffman said TVision software, which is a combination of Xbox Connect and its own technology, reports more specific numbers to its clients so they can better target advertising and create content that keeps viewers more attentive. The data analytics company, founded by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
Boston.com Boston ranked No.1 city empty nesters will flock to in 2016 f downsizing is important, these empty nesters are willing to give up the space they once had to be in the middle of a city. “People like the idea of living more densely,’’ Barry Bluestone, director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, told The Boston Globe […]
Boston Herald L.A. schools shutdown could spawn copycats “These threats are so easy to issue and in today’s day and age, they are understandably being taken very seriously,” Northeastern University professor Max Abrahms said. “I’m worried that there will be copycat hoaxes now that it’s been shown to be effective.” The nation’s two biggest school systems, New York City and Los Angeles, received […]
How to eliminate mass killers — it’s common sense My tongue is firmly planted in my cheek, yet this is no joke. On April 15, 2013, two Muslim brothers killed three spectators (and later, a police officer) near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon. On December 2, 2015, two Muslim terrorists murdered 14 fellow employees as they were enjoying a company party […]
Yahoo! Finance What happens to your debt after you die? The general rule of thumb is that if your loved one has a lot of debt, and there’s plenty of money to pay it off, the debt will be paid off, according to Tim Gagnon, a professor of accounting at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. “If a person dies with […]
New Scientist Paris deal could help narrow the US political divide on climate If the aims of the historic Paris climate deal are to be met, a moonshot effort to develop technologies that can decarbonise the world economy will be needed – and the US has been positioning itself to lead this push. The accord involves 195 countries pledging to achieve voluntary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. In […]
‘Nut Country’ and ‘Right Out of California’ Tower is one of the more statesmanlike figures in “Nut Country,” Edward H. Miller’s well-researched and briskly written account of Dallas’s transformation from Democratic stronghold to “perfect test kitchen” of a new politics of Republican protest that combined the libertarian cry for “freedom” with the states’ rights model of constitutional order. A go-getting paradise with […]
Puerto Rico’s embattled governor says he won’t run for 2nd term “In some way, shape or form, I suspect there will be federal control of the Puerto Rican economy,” said Amilcar Barreto, a political science professor at Northeastern University. “It’s going to be a traumatic experience for the Puerto Rican political system.”
BetaBoston Insightfully aims to turn connections into relationships A social network is just that – a network of people with knowledge on a variety of topics. But most social users engage with only a fraction of their connections. Chirag Kulkarni, a 20-year-old Northeastern University business student, has recognized the lack of communication among Twitter and LinkedIn followers and is launching a beta version Tuesday of […]
Science Magazine Which studies got the most media buzz in 2015? The number one story: “A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance,” published in January in Nature. “We didn’t quite anticipate the media frenzy around the paper,” says co-author Brian Conlon, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s certainly a strange experience to see a photograph of bacterial cultures you took in the lab […]