Debate moderators want to be ‘invisible’ Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, questioned whether moderators should encourage candidates to attack each other, calling that something of a debate cliché. The main thing, he said: “Stick to the facts, stick to the topics you are comfortable with as a journalist.”
Boston Herald Marco Rubio will be center stage at GOP debate Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor and debate expert at Northeastern University, told the Herald Rubio really needs a home run tonight to move the needle on his campaign. “He’s had three very good debates so far in a row,” said Schroeder. “But he hasn’t really had to withstand a lot of incoming artillery, and the […]
Boston Herald Drug loss stats spike: 15 percent bump in stolen, missing pills “There’s still a lot of demand and the supply is being constricted, so people are responding as you would expect: By doing more, sort of desperate acts to get their hands on these drugs,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University who has been studying overdose and drug […]
WGBH All revved up: Mizzou controversy is the product of a racist climate The University of Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, stepped down Monday morning after months of racial tension, growing protests by African-American students, the threat of a walkout by faculty and a strike by football players who said he hadn’t done enough to combat racism on campus. Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe joined Jim […]
Report warns of future Mass. labor shortage “The real barrier to meeting some of those needs is very much in our vocational schools that desperately need to be expanded,” Barry Bluestone, a report author and professor of political economy at Northeastern University, told WBUR’s Morning Edition on Monday. He pointed to waiting lists for the state’s existing vocational schools, and said Massachusetts has not built a new […]
Group pitches in at Big in Boston Northeastern University a cappella group Pitch, Please! entertained guests at the annual Big in Boston gala for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. WBZ’s Lisa Hughes emceed the benefit at the Museum of Fine Arts. The night’s honoree was Paul Guzzi, former president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
International Business Times Flu season 2015: New model tracks virus more accurately than Google Flu Trends ARGO, however, reportedly accounts for changes in Google’s search engine and shifts in search behavior. The new model also combines Google data with historical records from the CDC and information on seasonality of the flu. The team of researchers is reportedly working to make ARGO widely available. David Lazer, an expert in computational social science […]
Job training system in Mass. falls short, study says The report, which examined US Census data, Labor Department employment projections, and enrollments at the state’s vocational schools, was commissioned by the Massachusetts School Building Authority, a quasi-public agency that finances school construction. The authority sought the study because it has been inundated with funding requests from vocational schools seeking to expand, said Barry Bluestone, […]
Metro Expert: Two burned bodies found in 24 hours unlikely to be coincidence A renowned author and criminology professor said that two separate incidents of burnt bodies found within a 24-hour span are not likely mere coincidence. James Alan Fox, a professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, told Metro there are too many similarities in the instances to ignore the question of whether here is […]
The perversion of paid patriotism The relationship between sporting events and our armed services always seemed firmly based on pure patriotism. The men and women who serve our country in the armed forces certainly deserve recognition and respect. At these sporting events, fans appropriately stand and applaud the waving military. Now, thanks to a Congressional report, we find out that […]
Boston Herald Disaster ups fear of Islamic State terror “I think that clearly the Islamic State has both the will and the means to commit a mass casualty attack like this against civilians,” Northeastern University terrorism expert Max Abrahms said. “The fact that the Islamic State could take down a commercial airplane in today’s day and age certainly suggests a higher level of capability.” […]
Nature.com Mobile data: Made to measure Any effort to establish standards must address two critical questions. How accurate are the readings from these devices? And what exactly is being measured? Today’s fitness trackers are designed to tell users whether they have walked more this week than last week, say, not to collect laboratory-quality measurements. “What they know is general movements, which […]