Double Murder Seen as Part of Man’s Quest to Kill Sex Offenders Jack Levin, a criminologist who is co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University, said it was likely that Mr. Moody possessed a common trait among killers. “Serial killers often attempt to justify their killing sprees, and they usually do it by dehumanizing their victims,” Dr. Levin said. But the case in South […]
Boston Magazine Northeastern Adopts New Sustainability Program This week, Northeastern University became Boston’s first college to join the Real Food Challenge, which is a national campaign through which colleges pledge to purchase 20 percent of their food from local, sustainable sources. The Real Food Challenge will begin this fall at Northeastern’s International Village dining hall. A small group of students will work with […]
U.S. Prison Populations Decline, Reflecting New Approach to Crime <nyt_text> The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment. The number of inmates in […]
news.com.au Model reveals quick spread of potential bioterrorism attacks Scientists at Northeastern University in Boston hypothetically released smallpox in London, New York, Paris, and other major cities, and then simulated it being carried by travellers to other countries. They published their findings in Scientific Reports, saying they believe a deliberate smallpox infection would spread to up to four countries before doctors diagnosed it. These maps […]
Bionic fashion: Wearable tech that will turn man into machine by 2015 7:10am: Before making breakfast you run your forearm across an ultraviolet reader on your wall to check your glucose levels. Your “nano-tattoo” shines back a reading that shows you are in the healthy blood-sugar range. As a diabetic, you used to have to prick your finger and take a blood sample to find out how your […]
Chicago Tribune In Galesburg, few signs of a U.S. recovery taking hold Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, said those without a college degree are having difficulty finding employment because they are being displaced by recent college graduates who haven’t been able to find jobs in their fields. Last year, he said, there were more young workers with a bachelor’s […]
Concerns The Hot Mass. Housing Market Is A New Bubble We look at what the booming housing market means for the Massachusetts economy, for home sellers and buyers and whether the Bay State is heading toward a mini housing bubble. Guests Tim Warren, chief executive officer of real eastate publisher The Warren Group Barry Bluestone, the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and founding director of the […]
A Big IDEA The global economic crisis of the last five years has concentrated our collective attention, both here in the U.S. and around the world, on the need for jobs — as well as the need for strategies to support meaningful economic growth. Clearly, higher education has an important role to play here. For example, a December […]
The Telegraph Model reveals quick spread of potential bioterrorism attacks Scientists at Northeastern University in Boston hypothetically released smallpox in London, New York, Paris, and other major cities, and then simulated it being carried by travellers to other countries. They published their findings in Scientific Reports, saying they believe a deliberate smallpox infection would spread to up to four countries before doctors diagnosed it. These maps […]
We Can Fight This Feeling: The Loss of Cory Monteith and How We Can Prevent Future Overdose Fatalities A coroner’s report confirmed last week that actor Cory Monteith’s death was a result of an overdose. Monteith joins icons like Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, John Belushi, and Jim Morrison in meeting a premature end by overdosing on prescription opioids, heroin, or some mixture of these drugs with other substances. We all know that stars are “just […]
IEEE Spectrum Emergency Alert Study Reveals Metadata’s Better Side For the study, researchers from MIT and Northeastern University, in the United States, and the Technion and Ben-Gurion University, in Israel, had access to three years of anonymized cellphone metadata for an unidentified “west European country.” A total of 12 billion cellphone calls over that three-year span constituted the raw data on which the group […]
Daily Mail Study reveals how a bioterrorism attack could spread to several continents before it’s even detected A bioterrorism attack could spread to several continents before it is even detected, according to a startling new scientific study. The study found that if a small group of terrorists infected themselves with a disease such as smallpox and walked around London, then the pathogens could spread to up to four nations before doctors managed […]