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Northeastern University students create an edible form of coffee
For many college students, 8:00 a.m. classes are the end of the world. What’s even worse is not having time to eat breakfast and energize before and during that class. Constantly experiencing this problem, two students at Boston’s Northeastern University questioned, “Why can’t we just eat our coffee?” Co-founders of New Grounds Foods, Johnny Fayad […]
Yahoo! Finance
Long live cash: Why paper will never die
To hear technology folks tell it, cash isn’t long for our world. Plastic — in the form of credit cards and debit cards — is the go-to payment option for most consumers today. Our mobile phones are threatening to replace our wallets, and recently we’ve seen the arrival of so-called virtual currencies like bitcoin, even […]
MarketWatch
Charitable giving by Americans bounces back
One last point: in my recent Next Avenue blog post about the Giving With Purpose MOOC I enrolled in — offered by Northeastern University and the Giving With Purpose Foundation — I mentioned that it would give $150,000 in grants to nonprofits that passed muster with the students. The 30 winning nonprofits have just been […]
Charitable giving by Americans is bouncing back
One last point: in my recent Next Avenue blog post about the Giving With Purpose MOOC I enrolled in — offered by Northeastern University and the Giving With Purpose Foundation — I mentioned that it would give $150,000 in grants to nonprofits that passed muster with the students. The 30 winning nonprofits have just been […]
NBC News
Should cops rummage through social media accounts to assess mental stability?
It is unclear whether the rants that the 22-year-old Rodger had posted on the video-sharing service just over three weeks before he killed six people and himself would have tipped the scales in favor of intervention. But the disclosure rekindled debate over the extent to which social media should be considered a routine investigative tool […]
Doris Buffett manages donation of brother’s funds
When Warren Buffett announced in 2006 that he would give away his billions, he was flooded with individual requests for help that still flow in today. Doris Buffett attends the Women for Afghan Women 12th Anniversary protecting women’s rights beyond 2014 at Tribeca 360 on May 30, 2013 in New York City. Instead of tossing the letters […]
National Journal
What happens when American teenagers can’t find work
Most Americans love to reminisce about their first paying job, whether it was scooping ice cream, babysitting, or working behind a retail counter. It was rarely glamorous, but earning that first paycheck was a point of pride and marked a milestone in a teenager’s life. By the time Andrew Sum entered his teenage years, he’d […]
Google flu trends: the limits of big data
Google Flu Trends, once a poster child for the power of big-data analysis, seems to be under attack. This month, in a Science magazine article, four quantitatively adept social scientists reported that Google’s flu-tracking service not only wildly overestimated the number of flu cases in the United States in the 2012-13 flu season — a […]
No, Rand Paul, There’s No Reason to Cut Unemployment Benefits
Rand Paul says he cares about the unemployed. He says it’s “our moral obligation as a society to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.” That “no one asserts that the problem [of long-term unemployment] is people not wanting to work.” Rather “the problem is not in the minds of the unemployed, but […]
ABC News
Five Ways Kennedy’s Assassination Changed Presidential Security Forever
2. The End of the Presidential ‘Stroll’ Before JFK’s assassination, presidents had much more freedom to travel around the capital without extreme protective detail. President Coolidge was known for his regular constitutionals around Washington, D.C., most often only accompanied by one body guard. Additionally, President Truman was also famous for his frequent walks around the […]
We Can Fight This Feeling: The Loss of Cory Monteith and How We Can Prevent Future Overdose Fatalities
A coroner’s report confirmed last week that actor Cory Monteith’s death was a result of an overdose. Monteith joins icons like Heath Ledger, River Phoenix, John Belushi, and Jim Morrison in meeting a premature end by overdosing on prescription opioids, heroin, or some mixture of these drugs with other substances. We all know that stars are “just […]
A Tax Fight in Pittsburgh and the Future of Non-Profit Hospitals Nationwide
But local Pittsburgh politics aside, large non-profit health systems are getting new attention from city and state tax officials across the country facing budget crises. “The fact is hospitals are coming under more scrutiny,” says Gary Young, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “The city’s willingness to take on a […]