In a 2015 study, researchers at Northeastern University found that passengers with some free time on their hands have a reasonable chance of escaping Uber’s surge pricing simply by waiting it out — or by moving beyond the surge zone. They ran 43 versions of the Uber app pretending to be people in various parts […]

After earning my MA back in 2005, I decided that I wanted a change of pace from academic writing and decided to try my hand at what we in academia sometimes call “public writing.” In short, I became a freelance journalist. Though I wasn’t trained as a journalist, the path to publication seemed clear. I’d […]

Trump’s tactics could backfire with the public, said Alan Schroeder, author of “Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV.” “To me, it feels like whining,” said Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. “These people are running to be president of the United States. They have to deal with a lot of pressure and they […]

In the past two decades, Americans have added approximately 70 million firearms to their private arsenals. There are more gun owners, but they make up a slightly smaller share of the population. Handguns have surged in popularity, and the era of the super-owner is here: roughly half of all guns are concentrated in the hands […]

There are hundreds of millions of guns in the United States—enough, according to several estimates, for every American civilian adult to own more than one. But actual gun ownership is far more lopsided than that. A sweeping new survey by researchers at Harvard University and Northeastern University finds that roughly half of the nearly 300 […]

Gun “super-owners” are on the rise in America. For only 242 million adults living in the U.S., there are about 265 million guns, according to a recent Harvard and Northeastern University study obtained by the Guardian.That comes out to be more than one gun for every adult. Half of those guns belong to just 3% […]

Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 130m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have […]

Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston focused on international access to medicine, called it “very cynical” of Gilead to be providing money to the players involved in a lawsuit that “benefits them financially in the name of patient access.” “The real issue is, with the price as high as it is, […]

“It is generally much too expensive to buy put options as portfolio insurance. They drag down your returns during regular times and they are far too expensive during bad times,” says Nicole Boyson, associate professor of finance at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, referring to variations in the price, or premium, paid […]

A pipe bomb is a very common type of IED (improvised explosive device) and a pressure-cooker bomb is just a larger version. Usually it’s a closed galvanized steel or PVC pipe, and has three primary components: the pipe itself, which is the housing of the IED; the explosive filler, and something to initiate it — […]

In a civil trial, the burden of proof for a jury to find for a plaintiff is only that his or her story be more believable than not. “O.J. Simpson was acquitted,” said Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University, referring to Simpson’s criminal trial on murder charges. “But he lost his civil […]

Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for Study of Sport in Society, said it’s disappointing to see college coaches criticize player protests in this fashion. He was critical of Swinney’s comments, in particular, saying they seemed to indicate the coach cares more about winning games than helping his players grow as young men. […]