Following the 2009 arrest of famous street artist Shepard Fairey for illegal tagging — while a local museum hosted an exhibit of his work — [Boston’s] strict approach to the form seems to be giving way to more relaxed dealings. Fun and unusual projects are popping up all over town, including the work of an artist […]

You know that guy, the one peppering the waiter with a million questions about the meat he’s about to eat? New research from Northeastern and Tufts says you should be that guy. The study, published Wednesday in PLOS ONE, found that people who’re told they’re eating humanely raised meat prefer it to meat they’re told came from a […]

And on dating sites, would-be scammers have a trump card: People are irrational when they’re looking for love. “Romance is by definition quite irrational,” Jack Levin, co-director of Northeastern University’s Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, told The Post. “And the smartest person can be taken in during the early stages of the dating process. Except […]

Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail, said history has proven conventional wisdom true: practice makes perfect when it comes to the art of debate. “I think to go into a general election debate without adequate preparation is really foolhardy and to look […]

In the broad scope of American history, second-term presidents are not all that common: Almost two-thirds of presidents in the past 200 years have not been reelected. But in more recent history, the failed one-termer is a far rarer creature. Of those presidents seeking reelection since World War II, only Bush and Jimmy Carter have […]

A racially diverse group of 100 Boston police officers assigned to wear body cameras in a pilot program come from districts across the city, with some from the city’s high-crime neighborhoods, areas heavily populated by students, and districts trafficked by tourists. The officers — who are scheduled to begin training Wednesday — were selected by […]

The company president, who was a graduate student before starting Jobletics, credits the Venture Accelerator at Northeastern University for helping him launch the business. He says the student-run program helped him “think about a more efficient way to control the variability when it comes to staff.” The Jobletics app has been live for about five […]

The web—or, as we used to call it, the World Wide Web—is 25 years old this month. On August 6, 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who had outlined his idea for the web two years earlier, published the first website. It was, as the Telegraph put it, “a basic text page with hyperlinked words that connected […]

“Electronic cigarettes are sort of frustrating because they would appear to have great potential as a tool for people to reduce and particularly to quit smoking,” says Mark Gottlieb, who directs the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s school of law in Boston. Gottlieb notes that the jury is still out on whether (or […]

But many scientists are concerned that the outbreak in Florida may be larger and more widespread than the number of cases suggests. “Zika is one of those diseases that is always like an iceberg — you just see the tip,” says Alessandro Vespignani, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who has been tasked […]

“It’s really a wonderful career, because it’s flexible and you can over time change your career focus,” said Maura Daly Iversen, a professor and chairperson of the Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Science at Northeastern University. Daly Iversen said her own career has come to focus heavily on the research side of the […]

Most managers know that praising employees when they perform well is important, but many still withhold praise. They seem wedded to the outdated belief that pride can sap motivation among workers and even make them a bit lazy. This take on pride isn’t correct, not even in the least. In fact, pride is one of […]