WGBH Can Brian Williams recover from his false Iraq tale? Should he? The mainstream press this morning is stepping gingerly around Brian Williams’ literally incredible mea culpa about (not) coming under fire in Iraq 12 years ago. Ravi Somaiya of the New York Times reports that the NBC News anchor “apologized for mistakenly claiming” his helicopter had been shot down. The Washington Post — which, unlike the […]
Yahoo! How a family can improve dad’s career Dads who spend more time with their kids are happier at work, according to a new study published in the journal the Academy of Management Perspectives. “More involved fathers experience greater job satisfaction and work-family enrichment, and less work-family conflict; and they are less likely to think about quitting their jobs,” write the study’s authors. The study […]
Northeastern stays focused in quest for Beanpot Turned out, it was worth the wait. Before Tuesday night, the Northeastern men’s hockey team hadn’t played a game since Jan. 24 when it was completing a sweep of Notre Dame. The Huskies were geared up for the Beanpot, but then came the postponement from Monday to Tuesday. That was followed by a little bit […]
Tsarnaev defense: Delay jury selection and relocate the trial On Tuesday evening, Tsarnaev’s defense team filed yet another attempt to stay jury selection and relocate the trial out of Boston, this time petitioning a federal appeals judge instead of presiding Judge George O’Toole. The defense’s filing comes hot on the heels of a U.S. District Court of Massachusetts announcement that “barring further weather delays, […]
More family time can give dad’s career a lift More time with the kids appears to be a career boost for many working dads, a new study found. Fathers feel greater job satisfaction and less work-life conflict when they spend more time caring for their children, according to the study, which surveyed 970 fathers in a variety of occupations. And men are less likely […]
Fox 25 Could scientists create a way to eliminate the flu? With literally millions of lives at stake FOX 25’s Crystal Haynes asked cutting edge vaccine researchers here Northeastern University how developers could have got this year’s vaccine so wrong. “What they do is they look at what strains of influenza were around last year to develop the vaccine for this year,” said head of the […]
Rand Paul’s vaccine comments are latest chapter in 136-year-old debate As books like Arthur Allen’s Vaccine and Seth Mnookin’s The Panic Virus have documented, the American anti-vaccination movement has been around since at least 1879, when the Anti-Vaccination Society was established. And its shape hasn’t even changed that much in 136 years. Henning Jacobson, the Massachusetts preacher whose case established the right of states to […]
Nerd Wallet Renewal of terrorism insurance benefits businesses, individuals, experts say If you invest in real estate or own a business, you have good reasons to be happy about the TRIA renewal. But does the average American have a stake in it? Yes, says Sean Burke, the executive director of the Center for Resilience Studies at Northeastern University. “If investors and businesses could not access insurance […]
Forecasts may soon predict flu patterns The flu comes every year. Sometimes it peaks early, surprising doctors in December with a spate of fevered patients. Other times, the virus dallies until February. Some years, influenza season comes and goes with only mild illness; once in a while, it wallops with fatal force. In Massachusetts this season, for example, flu cases spiked […]
CNBC News Taxing offshore profits could fill lots of potholes Proponents of a tax holiday argue that letting companies bring profits back home will spur investment and create jobs. But studies have shown that the last time Congress gave corporations a tax holiday, in 2004, the move did little to boost the economy. Instead, companies used their overseas profit pool to better manage the earnings […]
Newsday ‘Empire’ on Fox: Authenticity of black experience brings huge success “There’s a perceived authenticity and cultural specificity — it is an African-American show, very much so,” says Carole Bell, professor of communications studies at Northeastern University, and author of the forthcoming “The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film.” Bell told me the show — about a thuggish record company executive (Terrence Howard), his ex-wife […]
The Christian Science Monitor How Syrian rebel fighters fell for ‘honey trap’ hackers The majority who predicted a big attack said that not only is security a secondary concern in most Internet application designs, but cyber battles are already happening. “The US government’s series of cyber attacks on citizens, economic entities, and governments around the world has already done this,” Judith Perrolle, a professor at Northeastern University in […]