here are are no final answers to the motives of the Tsarnaev brothers, but there is informed analysis. Criminologist James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University, is the author of “The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder”, and says he thinks Tamerlan Tsarnaev had immense influence on his younger brother Dzhokhar, but […]

That doesn’t mean one should play the market based on search terms alone, however. The researchers observed a trend, but not all words fit the pattern. And if a lot of people were to find out that search terms can be linked to market movements (say by reading Scientific Reports), that signal could become useless or […]

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week at age 26 in a shootout with police, and his 19-year-old sibling Dzhokhar are hardly the first brothers involved in criminal acts. Three pairs of brothers were among the 9/11 terrorists, for example, and three brothers were convicted in 2008 for planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix in […]

Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a treatment for Parkinson’s disease meant to revive dying neurons in the brain via delivery through the nose. The Boston researchers were able to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s–a decrease of motor function that results in tremors and slowed movements–with a protein called glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor, or GDNF. The […]

In the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings, numerous politicians are calling the Gang of 8’s push for immigration reform into question. What lessons can advocates learn from 2001? Hosted by: Alicia Menendez Guests: Christopher Bail @chris_bail (Ann Arbor, MI) Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill David Leopold @DavidLeopold (Cleveland, OH) General Counsel and Past President of American Immigration […]

Remember sitting through high school math class while the teacher droned on about polynomial equations and thinking there wasn’t a chance you’d ever use any of it in life? Well, if you’re like most Americans, chances are your 17-year-old self was absolutely correct. As it turns out, less than a quarter of U.S. workers report […]

Avoid the negative. There’s nothing more demoralizing than negative talk at the office. Whether such grousing is fueled bypolitics or gossip, no good can come of it. Lynne Sarikas, executive director of the MBA Career Center at Northeastern University, suggests steering clear of being sucked in by nattering nabobs. “Some people just have to have […]

In each case, however, Banaji, Greenwald and DiTomaso might argue, we strengthen existing patterns of advantage and disadvantage because our friends, neighbors and children’s classmates are overwhelmingly likely to share our own racial, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds. When we help someone from one of these in-groups, we don’t stop to ask: Whom are we not helping? Banaji […]

Leaders of law firms and law schools today find themselves relentlessly focused on where law practice is headed. If they are not building structures that prepare aspiring professionals to thrive over several decades, then they are not doing their jobs. Yet such leaders must readily acknowledge that their own careers within the legal profession offered […]

Editor’s note: Stephen Flynn is founding co-director of the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security and a professor of political science at Northeastern University. The views expressed are his own. The twin bombings at the Boston marathon and the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers captivated the nation last week.  Nearly a dozen years after 9/11, a […]

“The payoff to the would-be terrorists is the most disruption you can get,” says Stephen Flynn, who directs Northeastern University’s George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security. “So on the one hand, you’re trying to obviously safeguard life and property. On the other, you want to make sure that you’re not creating, essentially, future […]

A possible cure to Parkinson’s disease has been developed to be taken through sufferers’ noses. The devastating disorder is caused by the death of dopamine neurons in a key area of the brain. But a gene that restores and protects dopamine can halt Parkinson’s if administered direct to the brain. It was thought this was […]