In a world full of “Chatty Cathys” and “Mansplainers,” which gender really talks more? Whomever you think is more talkative, there’s probably a study to back you up. Women have long been assumed the more talkative sex, but some studies indicate that men may be the bigger talkers while others found no difference between the […]

What I applaud about Wolfe and Putnam is that they smartly exploited what they already knew. It’s an insight echoed in a 2010 paper by professor Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University and Mark Melnick of the Boston Redevelopment Authority. When investigating jobs that might be available for aging workers, the authors felt boomers should exploit […]

The word “bank” typically refers to financial institutions, large and small, from the storefront where you go to cash your checks to the big investment firms of Wall Street. Yet there is a class of banks that deals not with money but with bodily fluids—blood, sperm, and breast milk. These “banks” aren’t part of our […]

Other observers said the move appeared to reflect a practical necessity for a business that is losing millions of dollars because of a lack of workers to carry out essential tasks. “The cochief executives are being very tolerant of the situation, but they understand that they have a business and they have to run it,” […]

It can be dangerous business to publicly comment on the disciplinary action taken by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell regarding Ravens running back Ray Rice. His two-game suspension of Rice for domestic violence has outraged many commentators for its leniency. Others who have downplayed the seriousness of Rice’s misconduct or blamed the victim rightly have suffered […]

While the struggles endured in recent years by America’s youth pale in comparison to those suffered by young people in Spain and Greece – where unemployment rates in excess of 50% have spawned great social unrest – finding a job, let alone laying the foundation for a long and prosperous career, is far from simple […]

The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the first quarter, according to a revised government calculation, while the Massachusetts economy shrank at a 0.3 percent rate over the same period, MassBenchmarks said Wednesday. Revisions can significantly alter estimates of economic growth. In late April, for instance, the Commerce Department said […]

The raging conflict over Gaza has led to intense debate and protests here in the United States. The State Department is advising Americans against traveling to Israel and the Palestinian territories as long-range missile attacks continue. Last week, a group of Northeastern University students studying in Israel cut their trip short due to safety concerns.

This spring, labor markets gained strength locally and nationally, the UMass report said, rebounding after an unusually harsh winter that slowed consumer spending and exports. Massachusetts employment grew at a 1.7 percent annual rate in the second quarter, up from 1.2 percent in the first quarter, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a professor of economics at Northeastern […]

By now, most sci­en­tists — 97 per­cent of them, to be exact — agree that the tem­per­a­ture of the planet is rising and that the increase is due to human activ­i­ties such as fossil fuel use and defor­esta­tion. But until recently, the jury was still out regarding the vari­ability sur­rounding that increase — for example, […]

Congrats. You had the job interview. Now, your work is done, right? Wrong. In today’s hypercompetitive job market, effective follow-up after the interview is a must, and failing to do it well might cause you to lose out to another candidate. The line between being persistent and being a pain, however, is blurry at best. […]

In checking Perry’s claim, we’d asked criminologists recommended to us by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York how to interpret the DPS-presented information. Notably, the DPS web page doesn’t specify when the 3,070 homicide charges in the criminal histories of all the “alien” individuals arrested in Texas since October 2008 accumulated. […]