Buzzfeed 7 life-affirming things grateful people do But it’s not just your friends who will reap the benefits of your gratitude. This 2006 study by Monica Y. Bartlett and David DeSteno at Northeastern University shows that the compassion inspired by gratitude reaches outside a person’s social circle, extending to strangers. “If you’re feeling gratitude, you’re more likely not only to help a […]
Northeastern, other colleges no longer bound by region Across the street from Amazon headquarters, flanked by a prestigious biology institute on one side and a Filipino-Vietnamese food truck on the other, sitsa storefront in a booming biotech enclave of the city. The space is decked in red and white, with modernist lounge chairs and molecule-shaped sculptures suspended from the ceiling. Welcome to Northeastern […]
Who is actually the middle class? There is a fundamental obstacle to most conversations about income inequality: Just about everyone likes to believe that they are average. Whether you make $32,000 or $200,000, you tend to think that you earn at or about the US’s median income. Of course, this can’t be true — actual US median income is about $51,000. […]
Job growth picks up in Mass. The Massachusetts unemployment rate slipped below the nation’s for the first time since November as employers added nearly 4,000 jobs last month, the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development said Thursday. Unemployment in February fell to 6.5 percent from 6.8 percent in January, the state reported. Nationally, the rate rose slightly last month, […]
Decades later, the clave beat goes on for Latin jazz and Jewish musicians Sometime in the late 1940s, two young Latin musicians in New York, Joe Loco and Tito Puente, sat down to compose songs for a new album by the bandleader Pupi Campo. Mostly, they wrote in a language and style intended for the city’s postwar wave of Cuban and Puerto Rican newcomers, the obvious audience. The […]
This is how conspiracy theories go viral on Facebook Conspiracy theories run rampant on Facebook. Why? Well, sometime between posting that umpteenth puppy picture and sharing just another photo of their adorable newborn nephew, your friends read a headline and automatically assume it’s true, sharing the story in outrage before taking the time to dig deeper. People fluent in satire like Andy Borowitz, or […]
Mercer Island Reporter Reporter Expert asks: are we resilient enough to recover from a regional disaster? Overlooking the valley, mighty Mount Rainier has been dormant since its last eruption around 1100 AD. But its activity – combined with its proximity to Seattle and Tacoma – makes any eruption there one of the most dangerous in the world, according to the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior’s Decade […]
New York Daily News U.S. is prepared to defend against planes used as weapons, but other nations lack such protection In theory, a missing, fully operational commercial airliner in the wrong hands could be really dangerous. But this is one threat that America is prepared to handle. Decades of Cold War anxiety about incoming nuclear weapons have translated into closely monitored U.S. air space. You can’t fly a big plane into U.S. skies without the […]
New York Daily News U.S. is prepared to defend against planes used as weapons, but other nations lack such protection In theory, a missing, fully operational commercial airliner in the wrong hands could be really dangerous. But this is one threat that America is prepared to handle. Decades of Cold War anxiety about incoming nuclear weapons have translated into closely monitored U.S. air space. You can’t fly a big plane into U.S. skies without the […]
Emerson, Northeastern jump on tech bandwagon First came the musicians; now, here come the writers, dancers, and actors. Sorry, tech types: The arts and humanities keep crashing your innovation party. In just the last two months, Berklee College of Music, Northeastern University, and Emerson College all have unveiled initiatives that sound as if they belong in the computer science labs of […]
WGBH Boston Herald loses libel suit, must pay $560K over false prison sex story The Boston Herald has lost a libel suit brought by a woman who charged the paper had falsely claimed she engaged in “sexual acts” while visiting an inmate at Bridgewater State Prison in 2009, David Frank of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reports. Lawyers Weekly has posted the jury’s verdict form, as well. The plaintiff, Joanna Marinova, […]
Boston.com Be positive, optimistic to have happy life, successful career Are you the person who sees the cup half full or half empty? This has been an age old question to determine our outlook on life – one of optimism or pessimism. One might say that optimists are always positive, choosing to see the best in all situations, where pessimists are always negative, opting to […]