For eight seasons, athletes nationwide have attempted to complete the reason-defying obstacle courses on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior. Among those taking on the famously infamous Mount Midoriyama on Monday’s Season 8 finale: Northeastern University’s Josh Levin.

Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Boston’s Northeastern University, said the perception is that crime is rampant when it isn’t close to where it was. “We’ve experienced such a dramatic decline in the murder rate nationally since the middle 1990s we shouldn’t be surprised if we see some increase,” […]

Never tease teenagers about weight. Up to 40% of girls are teased – it doubles the risk of being overweight and increases the risk of unhealthy dieting. Dr Rachel Rodgers, associate professor at the department of applied psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, says families should try to protect teenagers from the emphasis society puts […]

Since the early 20th century, Vlisco has produced African print cloth – otherwise known as Dutch wax prints. This vibrantly coloured and intricately patterned fabric dominates West African markets and is globally recognised as quintessentially “African”. Ironically, this iconic bold cloth was originally forged by Dutch colonial companies attempting to mechanically reproduce handmade Javanese batik […]

An investment firm’s use of medical device security research has alarmed many within the cybersecurity and healthcare fields, and excited others. Muddy Waters Capital announced on Thursday that it had sold stock in the medical technology firm St. Jude Medical based on vulnerabilities in MedSec’s cybersecurity. Cardiac devices make up nearly 50 percent of St. Jude’s […]

Humans pick up on sarcasm instinctively and usually do not need help figuring out if, say, a social media post has a mocking tone. Machines have a much tougher time with this because they are typically programmed to read text and assess images based strictly on what they see. So what’s the big deal? Nothing, […]

Add meat to the growing body evidence showing that people’s experience of the world is influenced by their feelings, rather than objective reality. The authors of a new study wanted to test whether people’s beliefs about how a food animal was raised would impact their thoughts on the taste of its meat. To do this, […]

There’s one big reason meat from a “humane farm” tastes so good, and it has nothing to do with farms. According to new research, merely being told that meat is produced humanely can make it taste completely different to us. In a study conducted at Northeastern University, people rated meat as looking, tasting and smelling […]

Besides the fact that Perry has drawnplenty of criticism in the past for her racial insensitivity, the term “misogynoir” isn’t one that gets a lot of attention in the white mainstream world. The word was coined by black queer feminist scholar Moya Bailey, a professor at Northeastern University, to “describe the particular brand of hatred […]

Very few other bacteria can bring on such a variety of symptoms or infect such hard-to-reach tissues, says Kim Lewis, a professor of microbiology and director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University. “Bacteria that cause syphilis, meningitis and leptospirosis are some examples, but they have one or two target organs,” says Lewis, who […]

The first day back to school is rife with anxiety for kids and teachers alike.  Parents can often be forgotten in our flurry of writing and intentional planning for that back to school after summer vacation transition of our students and teachers.  But if we are to take seriously our belief in the parent/school partnership […]

‘We show that what you feel very directly influences not only how you interpret what you see but also very literally what you see,’ said Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, an expert in the psychology of emotion at Northeastern University, in Massachusetts. ‘We call this ‘affective realism’ – the tendency of your feelings to influence the […]