Job Numbers Are Good, but Some Perils Loom Ultimately, that kind of acceleration in hiring is unlikely without a sustained increase in the pace of economic growth. Indeed, as achingly slow as jobs growth has been in recent years, hiring has actually outpaced the broader recovery. An economic rule of thumb holds that gross domestic product has to rise two points faster than […]
Fixing Black History Month So instead of constant odes to the past, I want to see people like Marquis Landon Cabrera lauded during Black History Month. Just a few decades ago, the 24-year-old Cabrera would have been considered a statistic with poor odds. He bounced around foster homes till he was 15. But then he was adopted by a […]
Scientific American Psychologist Uncover Hidden Signals of Trust — Using a Robot “In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word.” Neville Chamberlain’s first impression of Adolf Hitler can charitably be described as an error in judgment. Rarely do our own miscalculations […]
I Can’t Stop Looking at These Terrifying Long-Term Unemployment Charts There’s a new cliff in town, and it’s much scarier than the fiscal cliff. It doesn’t have anything to do with expiring tax cuts or sequesters. It has to do with people who have been out of work for six months or longer. It’s the worst cliff of them all: the Unemployment Cliff. Our unemployment […]
As Post’s next editor, Martin Baron brings record of achievement under tough conditions At his first news meeting as top editor of the Boston Globe, Martin Baron asked what the paper was doing to chase down the possibility that a Catholic cardinal covered up the case of a priest guilty of sexually abusing up to 80 children. Told that court documents in the case were sealed, Baron said […]
Do we ‘parent’ politics? The partisan ground between Democratic parents and their GOP teens NEW YORK — When David Burrows took on Barry Goldwater and Ayn Rand as “mentors” at age 14, his parents wanted to know what else he was doing that they might be ashamed of. Andrew LaGrone’s grandmother was an Edmund Muskie delegate at the Democratic National Convention in 1972 and was stunned when Andrew became […]
CBS News Colorado Theater Shooting: Does uttering the name “James Holmes” glorify the alleged killer’s crime? As soon as America knew the name of the man who allegedly opened fire in a Colorado movie theater Friday, the brother of Jessica Ghawi, one of the victims of the massacre, asked us to forget it. “I don’t want to media to be saturated with the shooter’s name,” Jordan Ghawi told Anderson Cooper. Jack […]
Gay Couples Losing Perks The legalization of gay marriage in New York means some couples may have to walk down the aisle for the most practical of reasons: to hold onto their partners’ health insurance and other benefits.
The Scientist Communication helps target tumors A new technique that uses nanoparticles and engineered proteins to broadcast the location of cancer in the body can deliver up to a 40-fold greater concentration of chemotherapy drugs to tumors than untargeted cancer treatments. The new technique, published online yesterday (June 19) in Nature Materials, could inform the development of more efficient therapies that […]
Chronicle of Higher Education: Northeastern, once local, goes global Read the full article (PDF) Less than a generation ago, Northeastern University was chiefly a local institution, drawing nearly three-quarters of its students from the surrounding New England states. Its alumni, too, largely stayed in the region. Today, however, the university’s horizons are global. Nearly 10 percent of its undergraduates come from overseas, double the […]