Politico What Nixon can teach the GOP about courting black voters The starting gun of the 2016 presidential election has quickly been followed by Republican candidates stumbling over how to talk to, and about, voters of color—the examples are almost too many to count. There was Donald Trump calling Mexican immigrants rapists; some cringe-worthy refusals to label the Charleston shooting a hate crime; plus the awkward […]
UPI Cyanobacteria outbreak a setback for Charles River “The problem is scientific — we simply don’t know what makes them bloom,” Ferdi Hellweger, a water quality expert and an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, explained in a press release. “This highlights the need for more basic research into the ecology of cyanobacteria and a cautious approach when considering […]
She’s the boss: Is the future of coaching female? “What you’re going to find in the NBA, in professional soccer, in the NFL is that men will listen to just about anyone who they think will make them a better player and perform better,” Dr. Justine Siegal of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society told CNN.
Dukakis, Weld agree on need for rail link Their politics aside, it’s a Massachusetts miracle these two can find anything to bond over. Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is serious and prone to lectures. It’s a good thing he has been teaching at Northeastern University and the University of California, Los Angeles, all these years. Weld, the patrician Yankee, is laid back […]
The Conversation Cynicism about mobile advertising is greatly misplaced A number of studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of mobile advertising in different contexts. For example, Professor Yakov Bart and colleagues have shown that mobile display ad campaigns significantly increased consumers’ favorable attitudes and purchase intentions when they promoted products that were utilitarian (ie, need-based goods used for practical purposes) versus hedonic (ie, desirable goods […]
PBS Graphene, meet mainstream In the lab of Swastik Kar, lead author of one of the recent papers and a professor of physics at Northeastern University, I find myself staring at a piece of graphene that his group has meticulously deposited on a postage-stamp sized piece of copper foil. It looks like a postage-stamp sized piece of copper foil. […]
Boston.com Why was the prep school girl so nice to the man she says raped her? “A lot of people do think if someone is sexually assaulted, here’s what it should look like, there’s a certain reaction,” said Dr. Carlos Cuevas, an associate professor at Northeastern University, and a psychologist who specializes in helping victims of assault and abuse. “Expectations of what survivors should or shouldn’t look like or should or […]
The false assumptions underlying Trump’s immigration plan The outcry is understandable; the facts prove Trump wrong. Study after study has debunked the notion that increased immigration, legal or illegal, produces a spike in crime. Indeed, the converse may be true. “Over the past 20 years, during a time that immigration into this country has skyrocketed . . . there has been no evidence that […]
Do broken windows really predict neighborhood crime? Can a broken window really predict crime? That’s the idea behind the “Broken Windows” theory. The theory goes that areas with a lot of public disorder — trash, ruined cars, broken lights — are also those plagued by public violence. But according to the Boston Area Research Initiative, at least in Boston, it turns out […]
Scientific American Lyme disease may linger for 1 in 5 because of “persisters” These ideas stem from the observation of a few rogue bacterial cells. Kim Lewis, director of the antimicrobial discovery center at Northeastern University, and his colleagues grew B. burgdorferi in the laboratory, treated them with various antibiotics and found that whereas most of the bacteria died within the first day, a small percentage—called persister cells—managed […]
Differentiation is hard. But necessary. I’ll add that it isn’t a surprise to anyone who works in marketing that colleges and universities look and sound more alike than different. And please note: I’m referring toreal differentiation — not a tagline or visual identity. What are other examples of institutions that are clearly differentiated? Here are some that occurred to me […]
Was portrayal of Amazon’s brutal workplace on target? But Bill Mitchell, a longtime editor at Poynter.org who now teaches journalism ethics at Northeastern University, wrote on Facebook that he found the piece exceptionally persuasive and solid. Two aspects impressed him: the named sources and the contribution made by the thousands of comments. He also praised the story’s “tough but evenhanded tone,” and noted […]