Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has written several books about serial killings, said such crimes are often motivated by the killer’s need to avenge a catastrophic loss in their lives such as losing a job, falling deeply into debt or breaking up with a romantic partner.

“It certainly depends on how long it’s down,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “If they’re down over the weekend, it’s not such a big deal. If they’re down for a long time, things back up, and then it’s a bigger process and a more complicated one.”

Given up on your New Year’s resolutions already? You’re not alone. Research shows that only eight per cent of resolutions are kept throughout the year, while fully 25 per cent fail within the first week. Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno says that’s because we’re going about it wrong, because using willpower to change our habits simply […]

Both of these demonstrations resulted in thousands of signs, notes and mementos that, to many untrained eyes, could be considered trash. But for a group of Northeastern professors and activist Matthew Chavez, these items had a different meaning and a much deeper importance: They told a story of a place, a time and the emotions […]

Choffnes is a Northeastern University professor who researches distributed systems and networking. He’s gathering data for a study on Internet providers’ treatment of different kinds of Internet traffic. A summary of the data collected so far is available here. “Our goal is to understand differentiation (e.g., throttling policies) worldwide and how they evolve over time,” Choffnes […]

Christie Rizzo, an associate professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University, argues that for most of us, decompressing in this manner is probably harmless. “It’s just designed to be something fun,” she said. “Though I wouldn’t want people thinking, This is going to help me with that problem I’ve been having with my anger. You’re […]

Willpower, reason, and executive-functioning skills all seem like ingredients in the recipe for success. So why, then, have so many of us already abandoned our New Year’s resolutions, and it’s not even February yet? According to Emotional Success, a new book by the Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno, it’s because we’re going about pursuing […]

The FCC has suggested that consumer outrage will prevent companies from violating net neutrality, but it if you’re not a network engineer, it can be hard to know if net neutrality is being violated at all. David Coffnes, a researcher at Northeastern University, set out to change that. He created an app to detect net […]

Developed by David Coffnes, a researcher at Northeastern University, WeHe is intended to act as a monitor to prevent mobile carriers and internet providers from throttling services and slowing data speeds—a violation of one of the bright line rules of net neutrality.

Northeastern University President Joseph E Aoun’s ‘Robot-Proof’ explores how AI will affect the way we work.

“I wanted to take her off the pedestal as an icon of middle-class respectability. That’s not who she really was. She’s a radical; she’s a lefty,” says Strain, who is a professor at Northeastern University. “She wrote ‘Raisin’ as a protest play.” Strain’s many onscreen interviews include Hansberry’s sister, Mamie Hansberry, as well as the […]

I asked experts at the University of Chicago and Yale University, and they did a collective “huh?” about Chalmers and the thesis. I also tracked down James Fox of Northeastern University Law School, who has done serious research on serial killers. Whites, he made clear, are the biggest group, though nobody’s claimed there weren’t many […]