Our guest says most of us are pretty clueless about this – given all the misinformation on how our brains and bodies create our “feelings.” In her new book, Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges long-held theories about emotions, debunked by modern neuroscience, but still shaping everything from health care to public safety.

Many cities and countries that have instituted Vision Zero policies (from New York City to the Netherlands) have seen dramatic decreases in traffic deaths. New York City had fewer traffic deaths last year than ever before. If the U.S. had instituted Vision Zero when the Netherlands did in the late 1990s, we could have avoided […]

It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large company equips […]

Trying to decode murder fluctuations is tricky. It’s often difficult to distinguish a statistical anomaly from a more insidious long-term trend, especially over the course of only a few years. “A two- or three-year span doesn’t necessarily indicate the initial phase of a trend,” said Professor Jack Levin, a criminologist who teaches at Northeastern University. […]

“Symbolism is incredibly important to social movements,” Sarah J. Jackson, an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, told PBS in the days leading up to the march. “For many people, and especially for many women who prior to this election weren’t necessarily engaged in activism, this is playing a really important role in […]

“In the artificial intelligence revolution (AI) over the next 15 years, 45 percent of the jobs we know are going to disappear”. Joseph Aoun, President of Northeastern University, delivered this rather stark warning at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this month. Presenting the “Future Model of Higher Education” during the summit, the President […]

But the search for other antibiotic sources is underway. For instance, Kim Lewis, the director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, and his colleagues created a device that allows soil bacteria to be cultured in their natural habitat, thus opening a new pool of possible antibiotics.

Bert Spector, a business professor at Northeastern University, cited “chaos” in a commentary published this week, stating that the president was never really a CEO before. “That is, he didn’t run a major public corporation with shareholders and a board of directors that could hold him to account,” Spector wrote. “Instead he was the head […]

During a hearing at the Mattapan Library in January, Evans outlined a case for collecting more data on the cameras before they’re fully implemented. The researchers hired to analyze the data, Jack McDevitt and Anthony Braga of Northeastern University, told reporters there’s not yet enough data on use of force.

FBI Director James Comey, who did more to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential campaign than anyone other than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, is back. Investigations are under way into the Trump inner circle’s ties to Russia — and leaks from those investigations are one of several factors in the chaos that has […]

“They’re extremely difficult to investigate, again, because they are perpetrated from a distance. The offender tends to remain anonymous, and hate crimes are difficult to identify in the first place,” said Jack Levin, a hate crimes expert and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University.

Another reason applies specifically to business students, says Hugh Courtney, dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “Almost by definition, any student who received an MBA at any time in history didn’t get the optimal degree for himself or herself,” he says. Rather, students undoubtedly took courses that weren’t […]