Politico What he talked about From sports to threats to foreign countries, here are seven years of Obama’s preoccupations in the speeches he gave—charted.
Politico DATA: Trump won the debate—or at least talked the most While numerous political commentators have offered up their opinion about who won or lost last week’s GOP debate, we here at the Lazer Lab at Northeastern University spent the last week looking at the numbers. Actually we looked at the words: What did candidates actually talk about? How much did they talk, and for how […]
Prevention A ‘Ghost Lake’ in California Has Disappeared for the Fifth Time Since 1890 “Most of the news coverage about this time talked about it as catastrophic flooding,” Vivian Underhill, a former researcher fellow at Northeastern University, said in a statement to the school’s news division.
Popular Mechanics A ‘Ghost Lake’ in California Has Disappeared for the Fifth Time Since 1890 “Most of the news coverage about this time talked about it as catastrophic flooding,” Vivian Underhill, a former researcher fellow at Northeastern University, said in a statement to the school’s news division. “And I don’t want to disregard the personal and property losses that people experienced, but what was not talked about so much is that it […]
C-Span Stephen Flynn on Infrastructure Resilience and Baltimore Bridge Collapse Stephen Flynn, infrastructure security expert and the founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, talked about how to mitigate risk and build infrastructure resilience in the aftermath of the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse.
Google to present its star witness, the company’s CEO, in landmark monopoly trial “The Microsoft case was, at the time, talked about as the case of the century,” said John Kwoka, a Northeastern University economics professor who researches antitrust.
NBC Boston Why Is Gas So Expensive and Is the Russia-Ukraine War to Blame? Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon talked about how energy sanctions are related to inflation during NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”
‘We walked into a buzzsaw’: This spring, Greater Boston’s housing market is tougher than ever “We’ve talked for decades about price increases and limited supply, and Greater Boston always faces that. Now… I would characterize it as on steroids,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor and research director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “I think it’s unprecedented. I don’t think I’ve seen […]
PBS Moms have made it work during the pandemic — but at what cost? According to economist Alicia Sasser Modestino of Northeastern University, that exodus had a lot to do with the return to school and the demands that remote learning placed on parents. When the PBS NewsHour talked to Modestino this summer for our documentary “Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis,” she had predicted as the year […]
Meet the brilliant young hackers who’ll soon shape the world Google the words “David Dworken” and you’ll find a picture of a teenager in an oversize gray suit shaking hands with former secretary of defense Ash Carter, along with a headline that reads: “Meet David Dworken, the Teenager Who Hacked the Pentagon.” At the time of the Pentagon event he was a computer whiz on […]
The New Yorker The Bot Politic But when I spoke with Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, she thought that my job seemed easy—maybe too easy. “People have always created personalities for objects,” she said. “People have always talked to their cars; they’ve talked to their plants; they’ve talked to their blankets; they’ve talked to their stuffed […]
Politico Debate data reveals it’s still the Trump show A lot of ink has been spilled over last Wednesday’s debate, but here’s another way to talk about it. Judging purely by the data, Trump still dominated – but Fiorina and Christie really stepped forward, and Rubio made the most of the openings he had. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, had plenty of chances but largely let […]