The kindness cure How do you cultivate compassion? How do you ensure that at the end of the day, it’s your kindness and generosity for which you’ll be remembered? It’s a good question, for as much as we all agree that compassion is a virtue to be admired, as a society, we don’t seem to be very effective […]
Politico Where the Kenyan heritage of Barack Obama is an asset Who is this American boy we are hearing about whose father is from Siaya?” asked our elderly Kenyan host, Walter Gor in April of 2004, as we sat sipping tea in a small tin-roofed shack near the rocky shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. As American researchers conducting research on Kenyan colonial history, we […]
Yahoo! ‘Freezing’ software could kill malware by starvation Future defenses against Windows malware may include changing the code of legitimate applications as they run, a security researcher explained at the Summercon 2015 hacker conference today (July 17). Collin Mulliner, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, said that he and a fellow researcher, Matthias Neugschwandtner of the Vienna University of Technology, devised a way […]
Despite meltdowns, a tsunami and public opposition, Japan may soon restart a nuclear power plant — or several Next month, Japan may restart its first nuclear reactor in nearly two years. It would be the first time since the tsunami-triggered meltdowns four years ago that the government’s new regulatory agency, the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), has authorized the restart of a reactor. The NRA was created to rebuild public trust in the wake […]
Voices: ‘Shots fired’; here we go again After the Charleston massacre, James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology atNortheastern University, wrote in a column for USA TODAY about the urge to finger-point and the frustration these sprees bring on. “Mass killers are determined, deliberate and dead set on murder,” he wrote. “They plan methodically to execute their victims, finding the means no […]
Yahoo! Turkey attack spillover of IS war on Kurds: experts “There have been a number of arrests of IS sympathisers, and in general it seems like there has been a real but late crackdown on IS in Turkey,” said Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert and professor at Northeastern University. “The fact that there would then be presumably an IS attack against Turkey isn’t at all […]
Resistance isn’t futile – how to tackle drug-resistant superbugs Scientists have since scoured ocean beds and deep caves for micro-organisms that make new compounds but had come up empty-handed – until, that is, earlier this year when a team from Northeastern University in Boston, US, announced they had discovered 25 potential new compounds in the soil. One of them, teixobactin, showed promise in laboratory […]
Tennessee shooting sparks safety concerns at military recruitment centers Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University who studies terrorism, said there has been a “statistically significant uptick” in domestic terrorism in the United States. “And most of these attackers are lone wolves,” he said. Last month’s shooting in South Carolina — allegedly at the hands of a white supremacist — resulted in […]
Experts: No hope for justice in Orange County prosecutor scandal with current investigations In May, Chemerinsky told Al Jezeera that an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice would also be “appropriate.” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, also said a federal investigation could be the answer. “The feds do this frequently with police departments,” Medwed said.
WGBH Defining domestic terrorism part two: legal meaning of a loaded word But while the definition may be correct, says WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed, with the conclusion is flawed. “If you look at the FBI’s definition of terrorism, it cross references a definition contained in the US code. So that’s one definition from the FBI but it departs from how other people have defined terrorism. Some people […]
CommonWealth Magazine What is news worth? Dan Kennedy, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of the Media Nation blog, tweeted out the million-dollar question this morning: “Is the @BostonGlobe pushing too hard in its latest digital rate increase?” In an email, Kennedy said he suspected most of the people reading the Globe won’t stop just because […]
Yahoo! Under pressure Turkey steps up fight against IS The source argued the raids “targeted only very low-profile ISIS members” and came at a time when “the US is putting a lot of pressure” on Turkey to cooperate more. Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and a member at the US Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, said Turkey’s latest steps were […]