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Investigators Pinpoint a Short Circuit Within a 787 Dreamliner Battery
Boeing, along with investigators in the United States and Japan, have focused on the lithium-ion battery from the start. And today’s announcement that the problem appears to have started with a short circuit within a cell is exactly what battery expert Dr. K.M. Abraham suggested was the problem when we spoke with him last month. […]
Free Food, Shuttle Services & On-Campus Parties: Boston’s Colleges Encourage Students To Vote
Greater Boston’s college students have made it clear they’re ready to vote in the 2012 presidential election and, lucky for them, their schools have jumped to supporting them. From shuttle services and speaker series to election viewing parties promising free food and heated debate, there’s plenty of presidential fun happening today at campuses across the […]
WGBH Radio
Gun Control; Green Cities
VIDEO: In the first hour of today’s show we talk with Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center about the two recent mass shootings and how the NRA became such a powerful lobby. Then Kara Miller conducts a conversation with Katie Swenson, the Vice President of Design at Enterprise Community Partners, Jerry Hajjar, Chair of […]
Engadget
ATLAS bimanual-rehabilitation glove system hands-on (video)
The Squid Shirt that we checked out earlier today at Northeastern University certainly has the potential for healthcare use beyond straight off-season workout sessions, but the ATLAS project is an even purer expression of that application. The name is an acronym for the rather unwieldy Angle Tracking and Location At home System. In short, the system is a bimanual-rehabilitation […]
Will Penn State Sanctions Work? Boston’s Collegiate Community Reacts
AUDIO: In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, today the NCAA ordered Penn State to pay $60 million and stripped the late Penn State coach Joe Paterno of many of his college victories. The college will also be prohibited from participating in post-season play for four years. NCAA president Mark Emmert […]
The Denver Post
Criminology professor says interpreting any expression is subjective
In blog posts, at water coolers and on websites, people are endlessly speculating about the demeanor of shooting suspect James Eagan Holmes in his first courtroom appearance Monday. He looked confused, sad, lost or exhausted, some said. Others thought he looked drugged, and wondered how that might be possible. Still others thought he was faking […]
Engadget
iCRAFT robotic feeding arm (eyes-on)
We’re back for another day of exploring the Northeastern University labs. We checked out a handful of projects yesterday, including the HyCycle, a runner-up in the school’s Capstone award. Today we checked out the winner: iCRAFT — that’s short for eye-Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology. The project was developed by a group of seven electrical and computer engineering students looking […]