Andres Martinez-Fernandez: Young people paying price for Obamacare A study conducted in May by Georgetown University found graduates with a bachelor’s degree between the ages of 22 and 26 face unemployment rates as high as 14.7 percent. On top of that, college graduates under the age of 25 have a “mal-employment” rate of 36 percent, according to Andrew Sun, director of the Center for Labor […]
Maclean's Rewinding the biological clock Reproductive biologists have been working for decades to solve one of the great mysteries of human fertility: why do women produce all the eggs they will ever have while still in the womb, only to have most of those eggs die off before birth, and many more before the woman reaches puberty? Jonathan Tilly, chair […]
Forbes Turning Trash Into Skateboards Procuring the resources needed to make products is a pillar of any business. How much easier would it be if you could simply find them washed up on a beach? Three American entrepreneurs operating in Chile are, apparently, doing just that. With their fledgling business, Bureo Skateboards, Ben R. Kneppers, David M. Stover and Kevin J. […]
Gizmodo The Megaupload Takedown Killed At Least 10 Million Innocent Files Researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University, together with colleagues from France and Australia, ran a study to try to check that copyright-infringement status of a ton of files that had been Megauploaded shortly before the takedown. Examining metadata from links to content that had been hosted on Megaupload, the researchers took representative samples of 1,000 files […]
The Christian Science Monitor Homeland Security: Can Jeh Johnson handle agency’s big challenges? (+video) “The DHS was really invisible after the Boston terror bombings,” Stephen Flynn, director of the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University. “This was the first terror attack like this since 9/11 and nobody thought to ask – where’s homeland security?” “Obviously he’s got a strong background in weighty issues of the war […]
WCVB TV NU’s Bouve College of Health Sciences School of Nursing Celebrates 50th Anniversary on Nov. 2 with Danielle Vollmar Northeastern University’s School of Nursing, part of its acclaimed Bouvé College of Health Sciences, will celebrate its 50th anniversary on November 2, 2013 at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston at 6 p.m. Boston’s WCVB-TV Meterologist Danielle Vollmar will be the Master of Ceremonies for the evening. Afaf I. Meleis, the Dean of University of Pennsylvania’s School of […]
Why You Should Crowd-Source Your Toughest Investment Decisions Only three or four out of every ten movies made in America breaks even or earns a profit. Yet the decision to green-light a project is usually based solely on “expert opinions” — in other words, executives’ intuition supplemented by standard regression analysis. There’s got to be a better way. We think we’ve found one. In […]
More Institutions Report Drops in Enrollment of Military Service Members Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University also said Tuesday that its enrollment of active-duty service members in October classes had fallen by about 37 percent — 1,459 students — compared with the same month last year. A spokeswoman for the university said it was unclear whether the suspension of tuition assistance had caused the decrease. Some institutions, such […]
Popular Science Why Won’t Bullfrogs Jump For Science? The single best jump ever recorded by a laboratory bullfrog is 1.3 meters. Cuban tree frogs, on the other hand, can leap up to 1.7 meters. Scientists have previously explained this variation in maximum jump ability between different frogs as an evolutionary tradeoff: Bullfrogs can swim better. But what if the lab frogs were just […]
preLaw Magazine You could look it up What is a client buying when he or she hires a lawyer? If your answer is that lawyers get paid for knowing the law, think again. The law, defined as relevant statutes, regulations and court cases, is now instantly available to anyone connected to the Internet. Access to primers, government forms, and even Internal Revenue […]
Runner's World Six Months Later, Exhibit Revisits Boston Bombings Even after six months, it’s tough to look at the teddy bear in the glass exhibit case, with a handwritten note penned to its chest. “Dear Little Boy,” reads the note, which was left at a since-dismantled temporary memorial for eight-year-old Boston Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard. “I am so sorry that you are in heaven. My […]
Delivering World-Class Health Care, Affordably India might be the last place on earth where you’d expect to find health care innovation. Government programs have finally brought some infectious diseases under control, but the nation’s ability to meet the basic medical needs of its citizens remains abysmal. Despite robust economic growth over the past two decades, the infant mortality rate is […]