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The global eduplex
WHEN IT COMES to education, Massachusetts has always been a land of firsts. We launched the nation’s first college and its first public school. Today we’re first in the United States in K-12 student achievement. Now we should take our leadership to the next level, and find a bold new way to prepare our children, […]
Boston Magazine
Northeastern class asks students to invent new healthcare tools
In a class offered at Northeastern University this fall, the required materials go far beyond textbooks: Students are tasked with using cutting-edge technologies such as Google Glass and smart watches to improve healthcare. The class, offered through Northeastern’s Personal Health Informatics program, is open to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from a variety of disciplines. Students are […]
Boston Magazine
Northeastern students create a ‘way to eat your coffee’
Faced with the tedium of an 8 a.m. financial accounting class, two Northeastern University began looking for a way better way to start the day. Constantly pressed for time and unable to get their early morning caffeine fix, freshmen Johnny Fayad and Ali Kothari began building an all-in-one energy bar that was not only nutritious, […]
FBI: U.S. now has one active shooter incident every three weeks
Some researchers debate whether incidents like these are truly on the rise. Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox has long criticized what he sees as the overuse of the term “active shooter.” In an e-mail, he said that “it is not clear whether the increase in active shooter events is completely related to the actual case count […]
‘Active shooter’ incidents on the rise
The FBI study defined “active shooters” as a person or people “actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people” in a “populated area.” That is different from mass shooting incidents, which include any shooting in which more than three people are killed. It also excluded domestic violence and drug and gang-related violence. Of the […]
FBI: U.S. now has one active shooter incident every three weeks
Some researchers debate whether incidents like these are truly on the rise. Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox has long criticized what he sees as the overuse of the term “active shooter.” In an e-mail, he said that “it is not clear whether the increase in active shooter events is completely related to the actual […]
Gas tax indexing ballot questions could stump voters
Polls indicate voters are split on whether the state’s gas tax should be indexed to inflation, but it’s unclear whether the tight race is a reflection of real policy differences or voter confusion. The Legislature pegged the gas tax to the consumer price index in 2013 as part of a series of reforms designed to steer […]
The Quad Report: Coffee bars, Bar Mitzvah gifts and 3 iPhone 6 tweets
Those hipster baristas better buy this stuff STAT. Two students at Northeastern University created an edible coffee energy bar so that you no longer have to worry about spilling your scalding hot espresso on random people. My question is, can the bar eliminate heinous coffee breath?
Mass shooting hysteria and the death of John Crawford
This week, the FBI released a report that claimed to show a significant increase in “active shooter” incidents over the last 10 years. The report did not claim to show an increase in mass shooting incidents. Yet that’s how it was widely reported. Over at Reason, Jesse Walker consulted two academics who study mass shootings, […]
‘Why can’t we just eat our coffee?’
“It all started with a simple question,” Ali Kothari recalled the other day. “Why can’t we eat our coffee?” A short while later — with some college-student enthusiasm and some dorm room kitchen ingenuity — Kothari and Johnny Fayad began developing CoffeeBar. It’s basically an energy bar that is infused with a full cup of […]
The Washington Post: Luck has kept Ebola out of the U.S. But that’s very likely to change
Only a fluke of timing prevented Kent Brantly from being in Texas when he got sick with Ebola. Brantly, the first U.S. doctor to get Ebola, was infected in late July while working at a missionary hospital in Liberia. But he didn’t immediately realize he was ill. That’s one of Ebola’s tricks: The virus can […]
WBUR: ‘The Ebola Coaster’: Boston prepares intensively for what-ifs
Earlier this month one research team put the risk of an imported Ebola case in North America at somewhere between 1 and 18 percent by the end of September, based on analysis of air traffic from West Africa to the rest of the world. The risk has undoubtedly declined since then as commercial flights to and from […]