Tsarnaev Day 11: The prosecution is making a tremendous amount of headway in attempting to prove that admitted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was self-radicalized within his Muslim faith, according to Northeastern University Law Professor Daniel Medwed. Medwed, who is an expert on criminal law, says proving that point is critical for the prosecution’s case […]

The term “millennial village” conjures up funny images — think of a tiny hamlet where the natives live in thatched huts and communicate via Snapchat. But if a playful new name is what’s necessary to get cheap, compact housing built in Boston, then bring it on. According to the Boston Foundation’s latest report card on […]

It appears that U.S. reservations over cooperation with Iran, while both conduct crucial nuclear negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme, have resided after the offensive to recapture the city stalled, says Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and member at the Council on Foreign Relations. ”There seems to be an inverse relationship between […]

An economist from Northeastern University, Dr. Kamran Dadkhah, stated that if sanctions were lifted, Iran could export 1 million more barrels daily. Ilan Goldenberg, director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), whose credentials include being a part of the noted anti-Israel leftist group J Street’s National […]

May copper HGK5 tacked on 2.85 cents, or 1%, to $2.7895 a pound. “Inventory levels for copper have been growing for over a year,” said Jeffery Born, a professor of finance at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. “This overhang will no doubt flood into the market should copper prices show any […]

Riots, audiences on stage, fabulous costumes, gripping stories. That’s what theater was like in the Atlantic world in the age of slavery and colonialism. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon wonderful book New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (Duke University Press, 2014) vividly invokes a transatlantic network of performances and their publics, and […]

Northeastern University could help develop the first underwater smartphone or wireless router after luring a highly cited researcher who is pioneering subaquatic Wi-Fi. Tommaso Melodia, 38, came to Northeastern in August from SUNY Buffalo and brought with him his research and his lab — which sent the first underwater tweet a few years ago. Less […]

On Twitter as many as one in 20 active accounts are fakes. Facebook’s equivalent number is a little more than one in 100 active users. Software tools that help you make new accounts in bulk can easily be found or bought online, says Christo Wilson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has studied the […]

Researchers at Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Boston College conducted online surveys of nearly 1,000 working fathers and in-depth interviews with 31 relatively new working dads, all in professional or managerial positions. Along with finding a link between job satisfaction and time spent with their children — which researchers attribute to greater […]

Rough Draft Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount of money into Dash Electric, a Boston startup from a Northeastern University that is building an electric longboard. Northeastern student Ian Carlson created his first prototype for Northeastern’s Husky Startup Challenge, and now plans to make it available as a kit—costing less than $500—which can be installed […]

If you opt to take the simplified deduction, the IRS gives you a deduction of $5 per square foot of your home that is used for business, up to a maximum of 300 square feet, or $1,500. If your home office is over 300 square feet, you are not eligible to take the simplified method. […]

We have learned many things about our public transportation system this winter, none of them good. But perhaps the most important is this: We have no business rushing headlong into expanding a fragile network that breaks down when it’s too cold, too snowy or — as is often the case — for no particular reason […]