WGBH All revved up: More than mental illness The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe were back on Boston Public Radiofor their regular Monday feature, “All Revved Up.” Price and Monroe discussed the Oregon shooting, Jeb Bush’s response, gang violence, and Kim Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis.
Money for wildfires To the Editor: Pouring more money into fighting wildfires without first changing the Forest Service’s forest management practices will only promote more fires at greater costs. Wildfires are part of nature’s way of managing forests by thinning them and eliminating brush and other low vegetation that act as fuel. The practice favored by the Forest […]
WGBH U.S. Supreme Court may hold the future of Affirmative Action in its hands As the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term today, memories of its last historic term (same sex marriage legalized, the existence of Obamacare reaffirmed) are still vivid. The Court’s docket does not seem as laden with heavy, monumental issues as last year’s. But there is no shortage of compelling issues. Here are a few […]
WGBH U.S. Supreme Court to rule on higher ed. and affirmative action What are the significant cases before the U.S. Supreme Court? Noan Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard and a columnist for Bloomberg View, along with Daniel Medwed, WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern Law Professor join WGBH Morning Edition host Bob Seay to discuss the new term. Click on the audio file to […]
The three keys to a winning mentality Every year in the second week of September, the Northeastern University Powerlifting Team holds a tryout period to recruit new members into the powerlifting community. During the final tryout practice of the year, I realized something important. As a returning member of the team, I was giving advice to one of the guys who was […]
The Conversation Combating ‘neglected’ diseases using nature’s apothecary The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology recognized three researchers who made pioneering contributions to the treatment of parasitic diseases, which affect tens of millions globally. Tu Youyou was recognized for her work on the anti-malarial drug artemisinin, a natural product derived from wormwood, with origins in ancient Chinese herbal medicine. Likewise, co-recipients William […]
The 4 things to do before retirement With that in mind, preretirees should consider springing for needed repairs or purchases while they are still earning money, saysTimothy Gagnon, a certified public accountant and tax lawyer who is a professor at Northeastern University. “People need to look at their home, their roof, their car, and replace or repair anything that needs attention before […]
Does the secret to social networking lie in the remote jungle? THE HIGHLANDS OF Honduras’s Copán region, on the country’s Western border with Guatemala, remain nearly as socially isolated today as when the Mayans built one of their greatest civilizations there thousands of years ago. Far from Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, however, researchers here are studying social networks, trying to map the true extent to which […]
Guns are not the only deadly weapon for mass killers People sufficiently enraged to commit such crimes may also be motivated to find other ways, criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern University says. For example, four children, their mother and grandfather died in a house fire that critically injured their father in McKeesport, Pa., last October. Court documents say Ryan Williams was angry that his […]
Mission Hill Gazette NU opens new community space on campus Northeastern University (NU) had a ceremonial opening for Northeastern Crossing, a new community space designed to foster connections between Northeastern University and Boston residents, on Sept. 28. Northeastern Crossing, which is located at 1175 Tremont St., will offer programming to Boston residents, including English as a Second Language classes, legal counseling by law students around […]
PBS Psychological studies can’t always be reproduced, and that’s OK In her recent New York Times essay, Northeastern University psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett describes replication failures in genetics and physics as well as psychological science that led to marked progress in these fields. Nor is replication failure a modern phenomenon. Scientific American blogger Jared Horvath describes three famous replication failure cases from the history of science involving the work […]
Umpqua shooting – a tragedy, not a trend Another mass shooting sears deep into the collective consciousness of the American people. Another school — this time a community college in an otherwise peaceful town in rural Oregon — is devastated by a young man taking aim at students trapped in classrooms. Nine are murdered, and many others wounded, before the gunman is killed […]