I’m shocked, shocked to learn that the “wife bonus” story has been called into question. Last month I shared with my ethics class an opinion piece that appeared in The New York Times claiming, among other things, that some rich women on Manhattan’s Upper East Side were paid “wife bonuses” by their husbands based on “how […]

Justine Siegel hopes to make that dream a reality — not just for DeVinney, but for future generations of girls. The national tournament, a six-day event held in Kissimmee, Florida, is the brainchild of Siegel and her nonprofit, Baseball For All, which is dedicated to increasing opportunities for girls in the game. The event drew […]

Short-term spikes are statistically unreliable, especially if they come after a long-term decline, and could just be a blip, said Dr James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s a ridiculous silly game of focusing too much on too little, trying to ascribe it to something like the impact of [events in] […]

And many working to address organ shortages are skeptical about shifting resources toward science and tech research. Organ banking could raise new ethical questions. According to Northeastern University law professor Kara Swanson, who’s written about the legal debates behind the property of the human body, the ability to begin banking organs will probably raise debates on […]

A longtime Northeastern University professor left his job last month to focus on growing his startup, which infuses augmented-reality technology into architectural renderings. Boston-based Building Conversation, which was recently accepted into the 2015 class of startup accelerator program MassChallenge, allow architects and others to visualized a proposed building within the context of its surroundings.

People living today find their lives bookended by two eras of weaponry: nuclear arms and the emerging threat of lethal autonomous weapons. On the one hand, nuclear Armageddon is still a real risk as states fail to live up to their legal obligations to disarm and dispose of their nuclear stockpiles. Lethal autonomous robotic weaponry, […]

It is hasty and reckless to warn of a coming crime wave and blame it on cops becoming tentative in face of criticism over police shootings of unarmed black citizens. Termed the “Ferguson effect,” Heather Mac Donald and others are suggesting that, because of growing animosity toward law enforcement in minority communities, the police are […]

What are the biggest issues facing the MLB today? Where do the rise of regional sports networks and the emphasis being placed on modern stadiums rank?

“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” proclaimed Chicken Little in the classic folktale about mass hysteria. Along her journey to inform the king of the impending doom, the panicky bird convinced her friends Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey that their lives were in danger. Apparently, Chicken Little is alive […]

Faster prediction could be extremely helpful in making economic decisions, says David Lazer, one of the authors of the Royal Society Interface paper. “There’s an enormous amount invested by public and private entities to measure the status of the economy in order to better inform policy interventions. If we could understand the changes in the […]

Who is the Rhode Island person being questioned by authorities in the alleged terrorist plot that ended in the shooting death of a Boston man on Tuesday? So far, at least, most of the local media aren’t saying. But already a Rhode Island television station has breached the wall of silence, so you can be […]

In 15 years, the town’s population could jump by as much as 17 percent with fewer families with children and more residents over the age of 65. That’s the conclusion of a report “Envision Braintree” done by Lauren Costello and Barry Bluestone of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. Bluestone, […]