As news executives contemplate what it will be like to live in a post-Facebook world, they should be thinking about what it would take to revive the media habits that prevailed before Facebook became our most important news distributor. It won’t be easy. But consider the path that the Post has taken since Amazon chief […]

Stephen Intille, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies health technology, has run studies on sensor systems that connect to mobile phones to track movement. One of the studies he’s co-authored is specifically about how people’s intention to exercise connects with whether they do, in fact, work out.

Jack Levin, a sociologist, criminologist and the co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University, argues we’re not ignoring violent incidents. Rather, our collective fear of them is at an all-time high — a theory backed by American Psychological Association research. “We are seeing an epidemic of epidemic-thinking about violence,” Levin […]

What often goes unnoticed in the wake of such shootings is an enduring, quiet truth, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University: “Schools are safe. They’ve been safe for a long time. They remain safe.”

A study in the journal Health Affairs this month found that hospitals with higher charity care amounts tend to spend less on community health programs. So an increase in uninsured patients might create “financial pressures” for hospitals to spend even less on them, said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and a health policy researcher […]

Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, voiced his concerns to the website Gizmodo: “If a database of faceprints were compromised,” he said, “it would have a ripple effect on authentication systems that used the faceprint, as well as possibly allow unauthorised parties to make use of the faceprint for surveillance.”

A majority of economists in a separate Reuters poll last week said NAFTA will probably be renegotiated successfully with no significant changes, despite the Trump administration’s saber-rattling. “I still suspect that adults will prevail and NAFTA will not be allowed to collapse,” said William Dickens, head of the economics department at Northeastern University in Boston.

I would put the microcredentialing trend as a major sub-theme within a broader conversation about job outcomes and competency-based education. Virtually all of the microcredentials that have been launched and offered—and where the enrollments are and where companies appear most interested—are oriented toward professional and technical skills and disciplines. But whether it’s supply-chain management or […]

The law is the legal manifestation of differing ideologies held by Massachusetts’ state government and the current federal administration, an example of the inherent tension contained within a federalist system, according to WGBH’s Legal Analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed.

Before the snowstorm earlier this month, I was looking for a new pair of boots and eventually just settled on a great, but relatively expensive, pair. A few days later, I found out the LL Bean store in the Prudential Center was selling the same brand, but for a better price. Had I known about Shopert, […]

We need to make people robot-proof in the wake of the fourth revolution and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), according to AI expert, and the president of Northeastern University, Joseph Auon.

Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews found that 4.5 percent of single filers and 41.7 percent of joint filers have state and local property tax payments that exceed $10,000. That means hundreds of thousands of filers could be affected.