WGBH Tsarnaev guilty verdict and transportation sec. Stephanie Pollack on MBTA report Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty on all 30 counts in the Marathon bombing trial. Adam Reilly was inside the court when the verdict was read and gave his take. We also talked about what’s next in the trial with our panel of legal experts: Harvard Criminal Justice Institute’s Ronald Sullivan, former Homeland Security official […]
The Christian Science Monitor Tsarnaev guilty of Boston bombings. Where does trial go from here? From the prosecution’s perspective, the relatively quick guilty verdicts on all 30 counts might suggest that what they’re doing is working – and they should continue. “In a case like this it appears pretty clear that the prosecution has momentum,” says Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston. The timing of verdicts […]
Teaching scientists how to visualize their data Moret is a first-year graduate student in Northeastern’s Information Design and Visualization program. The program was started in 2013 as a unique merger of analysis and design meant to help researchers tell their data stories to a broader audience. “[Visual communication] allows people to catch the gist of something at a glance. . . that’s […]
How do cities’ police homicide rates compare? Question spotlights limits of U.S. data Since 1985, police in North Charleston, S.C., have recorded four “justifiable homicides” in which a felon was killed by an officer, according to FBI data. All those killed were male. Two were white, two black. But how does that number (as compiled by criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University) compare with other cities of […]
What Tsarnaev deserves Now the real Boston Marathon trial can begin. A federal jury’s decision to convict Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of 30 charges related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings was the most anticlimactic of anticlimaxes. The 21-year-old’s lawyers admitted from the beginning that their client had participated in the horrific terrorist attack, which both scarred and strengthened this […]
On the lam with bank robber Enric Duran Before robbing banks, Enric Duran networked. As a teenager he was a professional table-tennis player and helped restructure the Catalan competition circuit to be more equitable. He turned his attention toward larger injustices in his early 20s, when he read Erich Fromm’s diagnosis of materialist society and Henry David Thoreau’s call to disobedience. This was […]
Newsweek U.S. Army funds body armor inspired by fish scales The current body armour used by the U.S. military is primarily made of Kevlar, a high-strength synthetic fibre first developed in the 1960s. A Polish company recently announced it had developed a liquid for use in body armour which could provide more protection than traditional Kevlar-based armour. The liquid, called Shear-Thickening Fluid, hardens upon impact […]
CNBC Global business may still be vulnerable to Heartbleed One year after the massive security flaw, Heartbleed, was revealed to the public, a new study found that up to 74 percent of companies in the Global 2000 are still vulnerable to being hacked via the bug. The flaw grabbed widespread media attention when it was revealed in 2014, and made countless businesses scramble to […]
WGBH Rolling Stone UVA rape story: A textbook case of how not to practice journalism Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the journalist at the heart of the Rolling Stone rape-story scandal, harbored doubts about “Jackie,” her principal source, all along — or, at the very least, had come to doubt her by the time the story was published. That’s the only way I can make sense of a remarkable section that appears […]
Ed-tech entrepreneur returns, hoping to connect colleges and start-ups “It’s a new kind of animal,” says Nick Ducoff, Northeastern University’s vice president for new ventures. In his position, he says, he gets “inundated with emails from people trying to hawk certain things.” He’d open emails from Mr. Freedman, says Mr. Ducoff, “because he’s authentic in the field.”
International Business Times UK: 80,000 people risk death from drug-resistant outbreaks says Cabinet Office report According to the CDC, over two million people are infected by drug-resistant bacteria every year, and 23,000 die of related infections. Many companies have discontinued antibiotics development due to poor returns on investment and only two new antibiotics have been approved since 2009. Initial studies by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston recently developed a […]
Al Jazeera America Israel is proposing changes to the final Iran nuclear deal Dov Waxman, professor at Northeastern University, says Israel is right to highlight that Iran rejects Israeli state