Personal perception plays a big role. People heading into the “Hunger Games” movies looking for validation of their anti-government feelings will find it. People who aren’t, won’t. “Interpretation is definitely key, because art forms and pieces of pop culture don’t really have any fixed meaning,” Timothy Brown, a history professor at Northeastern University in Boston, […]

Privacy concerns are just the latest in a string of missteps by the ride-sharing service. Earlier this week, Kalanick condemned remarks from an executive who suggested hiring a team to dig up dirt on journalists critical of the company. However, it’s unlikely to affect Uber’s business, says Bruce Clark, associate professor of marketing at Northeastern […]

Privacy concerns are just the latest in a string of missteps by the ride-sharing service. Earlier this week, Kalanick condemned remarks from an executive who suggested hiring a team to dig up dirt on journalists critical of the company. However, it’s unlikely to affect Uber’s business, says Bruce Clark, associate professor of marketing at Northeastern […]

The VPC’s study has a lower overall number because it takes that data and then weeds out crimes with more than one victim or perpetrator, said VPC policy analyst Marty Langley, who authored the report. An analysis of the SHR data, available only in hard copy from the FBI, confirms those numbers are accurate for […]

U.S. officials joined Israeli counterparts in condemning yesterday’s attack, but the incident is unlikely to help strengthen the strained relationship between President Obama and Netanyahu. That strain stems from a disagreement over the response to Iran’s nuclear program and Israel’s settlement policy and it won’t end unless the two nations can find some common ground, […]

Northeastern University has joined with entrepreneurs worldwide to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an event-filled four days dedicated to acknowledging and celebrating the importance of innovation. From Monday through Thursday, the 20th, Northeastern will be hosting events and conversations centered on entrepreneurship, startups, investment and success. GEW itself is eight years old yet, for the second year in […]

You get the same sneaking suspicion every time you book a hotel or rent a car online: With each search, it seems the prices change, and you can’t help but wonder if sites are changing prices for you in particular. Well, they are—at least in some ways. A team of researchers at Northeastern University recently […]

Wedding bells are about to ring for convicted multiple murderer Charles Manson, arguably America’s most notorious of his ilk. Of course, Manson, the pied piper of the 1960s hippie movement, is not the first multiple killer to stand at the altar behind prison walls. Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi and Night Stalker Richard Ramirez are just […]

The latest trend in assisted reproduction is egg-freezing parties, sales events often described as the “new Tupperware parties.” In the I Love Lucy era, Tupperware parties were a marketing breakthrough that made Tupperware plastic storage containers wildly successful. Hosting parties offered women a way to earn money at a time when Rosie the Riveter was […]

Certain US experts have pointed out that the American administration consistently uses trade working groups to push for more severe patenting regimes that favour Big Pharma. Professor Brook Baker of the Northeastern University School of Law has cautioned that the working group would give the US a dedicated forum to continue to pressure India to […]

A minimum six-game suspension can be imposed for offenses including assault, battery or domestic violence, with “aggravating circumstances that would warrant higher levels of discipline,” the NFL said. Smith said “litigation was inevitable” in fighting for Peterson. But the players union does not have much leverage beyond the bully pulpit to demand an independent arbitrator […]

The next generation of students getting ready to step into the world of higher education isn’t too worried about climate change, claims they always break up with a significant other in person—not via smartphone texts—and gets their news from online sources like the New York Times, rather than sites like Buzzfeed, according to the results […]