ABC News Glut of zombie-like acts of cannibalism in the news is a trend that can feed on itself Experts warn that the recent glut of reported acts of cannibalism in the United States, Canada, Japan and Sweden is a trend that — figuratively as well as literally — can feed on itself.
Would market-based meter pricing help in Boston? When you have a car as I do it’s a constant game of rationalizations: Should I drive into the city tonight or take the T from the burbs? How bad will the traffic/construction be getting in there? What are the odds I’ll find a metered spot and not have to pay more for a garage? […]
Federal News Radio In Depth interviews – June 4 Boredom, curiosity, or even revenge are reasons why a hacker could jump on a keyboard and steal data from your agency’s servers. Themis Papageorge, of Northeastern University, has a list of three questions every agency should ask in order to analyze cyber threats.
Politico Presidential Campaign Fundraising, The Movie OK — so, not quite a movie. But this data visualization video by David Lazer, Mauro Martino, Yu-ru Lin of Northeastern University is pretty darned cool — and shows how, over time, major presidential candidates have raised money and from where. Give it a look yourself: http://bit.ly/KY0Sgw
Global Post When the BRICs crumble When Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill came up with the BRICs concept in 2001, it served as shorthand for a group of economies that deserved special attention even if they weren’t quite ready to join South Korea and Mexico as new entrants to the OECD group of developed economies.
MetroWest Daily News Giglio: Return to ‘doing the right thing’ Pundits are still arguing over the root causes of the financial crisis. The short list of usual suspects is, in no particular order, greed, crazy leverage, unregulated derivatives, credit collapse, and Bernie Madoff.
Making Summer Jobs Work For Teens A report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies finds that less than 30 percent of U.S. teens had jobs in the summers of 2010 and 2011. Though the employment outlook is bleak, there are some strategies for navigating the summer job market.
The National Law Journal Experiential legal education Several law schools have allied to make clinics, simulations and other hands-on courses the norm, not an afterthought.
Violins (not violence) in schools The positive impact of the “Play Ball” initiative on the scholastic performance of youngsters in Boston’s middle schools (see Globe story) is stunning, but hardly surprising. For too many years, we have over-emphasized standardized test scores — treating them as the gold standard, if not the only standard, for assessing quality in education — at […]
medGadget Looking at Diseases as Network System Failures Physicist Albert-László Barabási of Northeastern University is studying diseases as phenomena that arise when biological networks fail. In this talk from the last TEDMED, Dr. Barabási talks about how decoding the human genome was expected to quickly lead to new therapies, but the reality turned out to be more complicated and that studying intracellular protein […]
President Obama’s camp targeting Mitt Romney’s Mass. record President Obama’s reelection campaign opened a new front against Mitt Romney on his home turf Wednesday, calling Romney’s tenure as Massachusetts governor a time of grand gestures and empty economic promises that should be a warning sign for the nation.
Was Mitt Romney a Good Governor? The Obama campaign’s attempt to make an issue of Mitt Romney’s governorship quickly descended into spectacle Thursday. As the president’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, made his case in front of the state house in Boston, he was nearly drowned out by pro-Romney hecklers chanting slogans. From the sidelines, a clean-cut young man in a blue […]