Women's Health The Simple Way to Be More Compassionate So your dad’s birthday totally slipped your mind and you haven’t had a chance to call your college roommate to see how her new job is going. It happens—but it may happen less often if you take time to just breathe:Meditating may help make you a more compassionate person, according to a study published in […]
Crabs, supersized by carbon pollution, may upset Chesapeake’s balance “It’s taking them longer to go from oyster spat to oyster adult,” said Luke Dodd, a doctoral candidate at UNC who put the crabs in a tank with oysters. “When you’re a baby, there’s tons of predators that want to eat you up.” But when they put mud crabs and oysters together in the tanks […]
CBS News Gun control advocates take on “patchwork” of state laws In 1998, when new laws were passed, 65 murders were committed with firearms. In 2010, the latest figure available, it was almost twice as many: 122, an increase of 88 percent. The reason, says criminology Professor James Fox from Northeastern University, is inconsistent gun laws. “Each state, to some extent, is at the mercy of […]
The Christian Science Monitor Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice and the evolution of ‘tough love’ (+video) Years ago, Rice’s behavior might have been shrugged off by many as “tough love,” but this time, “there was a certain sense of outrage” expressed by everyone from sports commentators to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Northeastern University’s Sport in Society, which advocates for social responsibility in sports.
Learning to Adapt “It’s not the strongest of the species that survives,” Charles Darwin once observed, “but the one most responsive to change.” If only it were true in higher education. It’s interesting to observe, isn’t it, how much higher education is still driven by a “brute force” model of delivery? As much as we might wish it […]
Times of India Meditation may make you more compassionate Scientists have mostly focused on the benefits of meditation for the brain and the body, but a recent study has revealed that it also increases compassionate behavior. Several religious traditions have suggested that mediation does just that, but there has been no scientific proof until now. In this study, a team of researchers fromNortheastern University and Harvard Universityexamined the […]
Immigrating into a New World Being first at anything is hard, but being first at college is a bewildering and sometimes terrifying experience. I work with a scholarship program at Northeastern University that funds students from underprivileged backgrounds; all are first-generation college attendees, most are from poor families, and with a few exceptions, either they or their parents are recent […]
Meditation Could Boost Compassion, Study Suggests Meditation doesn’t just make you a better person mentally and physically, but it could also make you a better person when it comes to compassion. A new study from Northeastern University and Harvard University researchers shows thatmeditation can improve compassion and do-gooder behavior. The new findings are published in the journal Psychological Science. For the study, researchers tested […]
Smithsonian Magazine Meditation May Make You Nicer Traditional Buddhists meditate in the pursuit of enlightenment. Non-religious practitioners may try it out in order to find a bit of calm or perhaps to treat anxiety or depression. But whatever their motivation, people who meditate, new research shows, act nicer than those who don’t. Researchers from Harvard University and Northeastern University recruited around three dozen participants interested in meditation. Half […]
The Daily Beast Winthrop Roosevelt on the Oil Boom that Threatens His Great-Great-Grandfather’s Legacy My great-great-grandfather Theodore Roosevelt has the accurate reputation of being one of our country’s greatest conservationists. Images of TR embracing the great American outdoors by roping cattle on his ranch, hunting buffalo on the plains, and standing next to the Grand Canyon are just as ubiquitous in American history as the images of him working […]
Boston.com Double ‘Shark Tank’ survivor got an entrepreneurial start at Northeastern It’s not often that an entrepreneur strikes gold twice in a lifetime. In this case, the gold was an appearance on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” a show that features business owners competing for investments from successful entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Rebecca Rescate, a 2002 Northeastern University graduate, was the first contestant in four seasons to appear twice on […]
The Scientist “White-Blooded” Icefish, 1927 On December 1, 1927, zoologist Ditlef Rustad pulled ashore on Bouvet Island, 1,750 kilometers off the coast of Antarctica, as part of a Norwegian expedition to claim the remote, wind-whipped island as a whaling outpost. Later that month, casting nets into the frigid waters, Rustad hauled up a very strange-looking fish. It had no scales […]