Behavioral studies have shown similar findings. For example, in a study conducted by Paul Condon and Dave DeSteno of Northeastern University, and Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital, the research team sent a group of people to an eight-week mindfulness training course. Afterwards, they tested the people who received the mindfulness training versus people who […]

Veteran business journalist Jonathan Kaufman will be the next director of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, the college announced Tuesday. Kaufman, the Bloomberg News executive editor, will begin July 13. He will oversee a team of faculty who teach 225 undergraduate journalism students as well as growing graduate programs. He succeeds associate professor Dan Kennedy, […]

Since 2000, the homicide total in the city has ranged from 39 to 75, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. Looking at a shorter time period, like the first 5½ months of the year, produces even greater variation, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. “Just because the homicide count is a […]

Pope Francis is to make history this week with a call for international cooperation to avert dangerous global warming – the Vatican’s most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change. A leaked draft of the encyclical – a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its […]

However, some experts believe the lack of contribution from Washington’s coalition partners is of less significance in the battle against Isis than persuading local Sunni forces to co-operate with the coalition and the Iraqi military to help defeat the terror group. “If I were to rank all of the different reasons for the growth of […]

Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert at Northeastern University, said al Qaeda has tried recently to present itself as a more moderate force in Yemen in a multifaceted conflict involving Houthi rebels. In Syria, the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front has battled against Islamic State militants as well as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Some coalition partners have […]