Boston Herald Pressure mounting on NFL big over Ray Rice video The NFL announced the hiring of former FBI chief Robert S. Mueller III to probe how the league handled evidence in the Ray Rice scandal, as pressure on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ramped up with the report that a top NFL official had seen the damning knock-out video. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in a […]
WCVB TV Mass., New England seeing bigger climate swing expert says {Video} One of the authors of the White House report on climate change said Tuesday Massachusetts and the northeast are seeing far bigger increase in precipitation than the rest of the country. “Extreme precipitation events have been increasing here much faster than they have in other parts of the country,” said Dr. Matthias Ruth from […]
The backlash against big data “BOLLOCKS”, says a Cambridge professor. “Hubris,” write researchers at Harvard. “Big data is bullshit,” proclaims Obama’s reelection chief number-cruncher. A few years ago almost no one had heard of “big data”. Today it’s hard to avoid—and as a result, the digerati love to condemn it. Wired, Time, Harvard Business Review and other publications are falling […]
Northeastern’s Student-Run Venture Accelerator: Where IDEAs are Fostered & Turned Into Companies When six Northeastern seniors found themselves stalling at actually starting their startups, they knew they needed to take action — an action that would not only help them, but help fellow students at Northeastern. So, they approached the then dean of Northeastern’s College of Business Administration Thomas Moore with one big idea: IDEA, Northeastern’s student-run venture […]
The Globe and Mail The end of Roe v. Wade is the searing legacy of Trump’s presidency “This could be a big, motivating election issue,” said Judith Brown, an emerita professor at Northeastern University Law School who was active in the women’s movement in Massachusetts from the mid-1960s. “They are going to feel the court is dragging this country back to the world that existed in the 1940s and 1950s, where a […]
Axios The great debate about animal emotions Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University who has championed the idea that emotion is culturally constructed, recently wrote that “genes and environment are so deeply entwined … that it’s fundamentally unhelpful to call them separate names like ‘nature’ and ‘nurture.’”
Five flaws in Trump’s crime agenda: James Alan Fox Were there a Doomsday Clock on criminal justice issues, President Trump and his much-discussed small hands would be pushing the dial’s big hand toward midnight. It is hard to single out just one misguided idea from his array of proposals. So here are five not-so-easy pieces of Trump’s flawed agenda on crime control that make […]
Fast Forward: A cleansing rain, safe biking, and Obama-Biden memes Riding a bike around Boston and environs can be a risky proposition: In the first four months of 2016, eight people were killed and 307 injured from bicycle crashes on Boston streets. In Cambridge, two bicyclists have been killed this year. At noon, a Northeastern University professor will urge a City Council committee to consider […]
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, […]
The Christian Science Monitor What California’s cigarette tax could mean for smokers California’s upcoming ballot is smoking. This November voters will decide on whether to legalize recreational marijuana and, as state officials announced yesterday, on whether a $2 tax should be added to every pack of cigarettes and electronic cigarette products. “States are responsible for people’s health care and picking up that tab, and so originally […]
College isn’t always the answer More colleges should embrace the idea of cooperative education. At universities such as Northeastern and Drexel, students alternate between the classroom and the job. Co-ops are part of the undergraduate experience at these institutions, and paid work makes up anywhere from one-third to almost half of the time a student spends in school. Co-op education […]
WGBH We are punishing women for their abortions Over the course of his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump has made scores of derogatory comments about women. Detailing them here would exceed our word limit. But we will mention one of his claims—his suggestion that women should face criminal sanctions for abortions. Activists and the media properly skewered Trump for this idea. The […]