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‘Read this and you will be happier’: experts pick the self-help books that really work
Lisa Feldman-Barrett is a neuroscientist and a professor at Northeastern University. Her latest book is Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
NBC News
Schools outside the limelight may be the most vulnerable to sports gambling fixers, experts say
As college sports becomes an even bigger business, with haves and have-nots, it makes sense that lesser-known players toiling at smaller academic institutions might want to cash in, says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.
Why are the feds blocking a state probe of the ICE killing of Renee Good?
Deborah Ramirez is co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race at Northeastern University School of Law.
National Geographic Brazil
Who was Hamnet Shakespeare? Find out what historians have discovered about the son of the English playwright.
The specific date of the twins’ birth does not appear in any surviving document. Daniel Swift, associate professor of English at Northeastern University London, states that “this is perfectly normal for the Elizabethan period,” which considered baptisms more “significant” than births.
What 3,147 Employers Just Revealed About The Value Of College Degrees
Use cicmap.ai, a U.S. map of AI undergraduate degree programs developed by Professors Felix Muzny and Carla Brodley and the Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC), to identify AI credential gaps in your region.
Scientific American
Does String Theory Explain the Wiring of the Brain?
Senior author Albert-László Barabási, a distinguished professor and network scientist at Northeastern University, emphasizes that the paper isn’t claiming any profound, direct relationship between string theory and neuroscience.
Do Your Parents Ever Play Favorites?
“You can talk to older adults and they’ll tell you what happened when they were 5,” said Laurie Kramer, who studies sibling relationships at Northeastern University. “They’re stuck on that.”
There’s no mass shooting epidemic, but fear epidemic is real | Opinion
As someone who has studied mass killings for more than 40 years and manages the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database, I’ve kept a close eye on the social factors and public policies that have contributed to upward and downward swings in mass killings.
How the feud between Trump and Minnesota is impacting the probe into the ICE shooting
“The first reason is just pure efficiency,” said Deborah Ramirez, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a former federal prosecutor.
Critics say ‘talk to your doc’ requirement for some vaccines causes confusion
Wendy Parmet studies health care policy at Northeastern University and joins NPR’s All Things Considered.
National Geographic
Octopuses can become invisible. And now scientists are discovering their secrets.
How cephalopods achieve this instant camouflage is a mystery that has fascinated humans since at least 350 B.C., when Aristotle made observations on the subject, says Leila Deravi, an associate professor at Northeastern University whose BioMaterials Design Group specializes in biomimicry.
CNBC News
38% of people become emotionally closed off during unemployment: It can ‘really compound those feelings of shame,’ expert says
In the U.S., “work is the single most important way of proving your worth” as a person, Steven Vallas, professor emeritus of sociology at Northeastern University, previously told CNBC.