Report: Inadequate Public Transit Hurting State’s Low-Income Latinos BOSTON — With limited quality public transportation, many low-income Latino residents across Massachusetts are reliant on cars, and it’s adversely affecting their finances and job choices, a new report (PDF) argues. The study — comprised of surveys conducted in East Boston, Lynn, Springfield andWorcester — finds that a majority of respondents rely, often out of necessity, on an automobile as […]
Boston’s Egyptian Youth: Two Years Later In Cairo today, opponents of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi occupy certain corners of the city. Morsi’s supporters occupy others. No one is seeing eye-to-eye, and the country feels as fractured, if not more, than it was during its historic 2011 uprising. But Egypt’s military leaders also took a step forward after Monday’s mass-killing of […]
Boston bombing suspect’s fate: Column Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is scheduled to appear in federal court today for his arraignment, and some victims and their families are expected to attend. When the 30-count indictment against him was announced last month, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz indicated that the 19-year-old defendant, if convicted of murdering three spectators during the race and an MIT […]
Summer jobs add up to less violence in study A new study that indicates low-income teenagers in Boston who hold summer jobs are less likely to engage in violence was hailed by the mayor and other community leaders as proof that youth employment programs can change people’s lives. For the study, researchers at Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies polled 421 teenagers and […]
Big Think Why Choosing to Meditate is a Moral Decision The mental and physical benefits of meditation (for the meditator) are increasingly verified by a growing scientific literature that has found an increase in oxygen flow to the brain during meditative periods. Now scientists also believe that meditation can confer benefits on others, even if they do not meditate themselves. In an experiment conducted at […]
CNBC For Millions of Workers, Getting Sick Doesn’t Pay “Employers are penny wise and pound foolish to eliminate paid sick leave,” said Lynne Sarikas, director, of the MBA Career Center at Northeastern University. “The reality is that people can get sick and when they do, do you really want them in the office?” Sarikas asked. “It is a much better investment to pay the […]
Ballet dancers earn college degree while dancing [VIDEO] Northeastern University partners with Boston Ballet to allow dancers to earn a degree while they dance.
Stuff Guiding girl gamers to STEM careers Gaming and education experts gathered recently at the Northeastern University-Seattle campus to kick off an ambitious, long-term project to create just such a game. GAMES – short for Girls Advancing in Math, Engineering and Science – includes participants from Northeastern, the University of Washington’s Center for Game Science, the private DigiPen Institute for game developers, […]
The Morality of MeditationThe Morality of Meditation MEDITATION is fast becoming a fashionable tool for improving your mind. With mounting scientific evidence that the practice can enhance creativity, memory and scores on standardized intelligence tests, interest in its practical benefits is growing. A number of “mindfulness” training programs, like that developed by the engineerChade-Meng Tan at Google, and conferences like Wisdom 2.0 for […]
PBS NewsHour Jobless Rate for Poor Black Teen Dropouts? Try 95 Percent Paul Solman: Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum is featured in our youth joblessness story on the NewsHour Friday. His full picture of the crisis is essential reading, however, and so we share more of my interview with him here. For example, if you are a poor African-American high school teenage dropout, your likelihood of having a job […]
Abortion Clinics And Buffer Zones In 1994, John Salvi III shot and killed two abortion clinic workers and wounded five others during attacks on two separate Planned Parenthood clinics in Brookline. In response to those attacks, the Legislature passed a law that created a 6-foot floating buffer zone around patients and an 18-foot buffer around clinic entrances. In 2007, Gov. […]
AARP Is It Elder Financial Fraud? 5 Signs It May Be “Yes” But there’s another strong source for getting the word out. Terry Fulmer, dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, says that’s “every clinician who comes in contact with an older adult.” She cites more than six million of them, including three million nurses, 600,000 physicians, 300,000 dentists and two million allied health professionals (physical […]