MSNBC The Right Idea VIDEO: A student-run venture accelerator is preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurs today.
Trump’s one good foreign policy idea: neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Most of what Donald Trump has to say is either ignorant, offensive or both. That’s especially true when it comes to foreign policy. Yet when he’s pushed to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — among the more politically charged issues in this election cycle — Trump actually makes some sense. During an MSNBC town hall meeting […]
Men's Health ‘Don Draper got it right’ and other fatherhood wisdom from Adam Carolla MH: There’s a recent study out of Northeastern University in Boston, looking at how fathers interact with their kids. They found that when dads spent more time with their children, they were less stressed about their jobs and less inclined to want to quit. AC: Okay. MH: Jamie Ladge, one of the professors who co-authored […]
Boston.com New ‘sharrows on steroids’ debut on Allston’s Brighton Ave. The concept is detailed in a 2009 research paper by Peter Furth, civil engineering professor and bike infrastructure expert at Northeastern University, who first came up with the idea. The street markings, he wrote, can help provide the “feel” of a bike lane — even if there’s no room for one. “It is a design […]
A few modest ideas to improve road safety I floated my idea past several cycling advocates, who predictably agreed that more public awareness would be better. But Northeastern University professor Peter Furth, a specialist in urban transportation, offered another compelling suggestion. When Furth lived in the Netherlands, he had to obtain a Dutch driver’s license. Driver training is far more extensive there, costing the average […]
In Fight for Marriage Rights, ‘She’s Our Thurgood Marshall’ The daughter of a pharmacist and a preschool teacher from Newburgh, N.Y., she had come out, with some difficulty, while an undergraduate at Hamilton College. There, Ms. Bonauto was harassed over her sexual orientation, which she said contributed to her desire to “make life better” for others. By 1990, with a law degree from Northeastern […]
For some empty nesters, city living is just right While the vast majority of baby boomers choose to stay put, some are reversing the urban flight that drained Boston’s population in the last half of the 20th century. Many don’t need the big suburban home once the kids move out. They are tired of shoveling snow and driving to restaurants and shopping malls; some […]
A black man accused of rape, a white officer in the Klan, and a 1936 lynching that went unpunished Northeastern, with its renowned Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, was an ideal place. The clinic has investigated hundreds of lynchings, bringing closure to scores of families whose loved ones were killed without any justice at all.
Slate Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies If “truth” is judged on the basis of Enlightenment ideas of reason and more or less objective “evidence,” many of the substantive positions common on the right seem to border on delusional. The left is certainly not immune to credulity (most commonly about the safety of vaccines, GMO foods, and fracking), but the right seems […]
Fear and loathing on social media So maybe it is better to tweet than not to tweet, but about what? Just the day’s news? Or is it alright to go off-topic? According to Northeastern University psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made, it’s a good idea to discuss a range of ideas.
Novartis has a history of charging high prices for drugs in Colombia “This data supports the idea that Gleevec has not been the only drug for which Novartis has, historically, overcharged,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst for Health GAP, a group that advocates for wider access to medicines. “And it shows the unilateral power of companies […]
U.S. News & World Report An Investor’s Guide to Choosing Stocks and Bonds A couple of generations ago investing in stocks meant buying shares of a big-name company like Ma Bell, keeping them forever and enjoying dividend income along the way. But the boom in mutual funds in recent decades has created legions of investors who’ve never owned an individual stock. Are they missing something? In some respects, […]