Older, right-leaning Twitter users spread the most fake news in 2016, study finds In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, political scientists surveyed the inhabitants of this Internet pocket around the time of the last presidential election, from Aug. 1 to Dec. 6, 2016. They found that people who shared fake news were more likely to be older and more conservative. “Super-sharers” were responsible for […]
Reader's Digest 50 Reasons Why You’ll Age Better Than Your Parents Older people are particularly vulnerable to infection, and the rise of superbugs that couldn’t easily be killed is even more worrisome. But in a major breakthrough, scientists from Northeastern University recently discovered the first new antibiotic in 30 years. Currently in trials, this drug, called teixobactin, could be available in the next five years, and is effective […]
Worcester Telegram As I See It: Parenting in the Age of School Shootings I’d just lazily plopped myself onto the family room sofa and was scrolling through email on my phone. CNN was playing in the background as commentators issued observations about whatever newsy thing the president had done or said in the past few hours. That’s when I saw it. The email from my son’s high school […]
Boston Herald New AD hails Northeastern as ‘forward-moving organization’ Northeastern University’s new athletic director, Jeff Konya, sounds very much like a man who plans to bring a new-age outlook to a Huskies program rich in old-school tenets.
The Independent Hedge funds run by women outperforming those run by men, shows new data Nicole Boyson, associate professor of finance at Northeastern University in Boston, told the paper that while it is hard to say unequivocally that women make better hedge fund managers than men, “we can say pretty definitively that women are not worse performers”.
ThinkProgress Coverage of Barcelona attack highlights ‘empathy gap’ John Wihbey, associate professor of journalism and media at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, told ThinkProgress that there is no one reason driving the decisions behind the different coverage of these attacks. “There’s some xenophobia/stereotyping that is at work, and at the same time its indisputable that more planes fly into Paris and Barcelona from […]
New Scientist Childhood exercise may protect against memory loss in old age “The results suggest the amount of physical activity when we’re young, at least for rodents, has implications for brain and cognitive health—in the form of better memories—when we’re older,” says Arthur Kramer of Northeastern University in Boston, who has found that, in humans, exercise stimulates the growth of new brain cells.
Tech Republic Microsoft’s new AI app to assist the blind could be a ‘game changer’ in accessibility Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, said she believes the app could be useful, even for people who are not visually impaired. “What is obvious to one person can be invisible to another,” Alper told […]
WGBH The 2017 New England Muzzle Awards: Spotlighting 10 who diminish free speech It seems somehow appropriate that on this, the 20th anniversary of the Muzzle Awards, assaults on freedom of expression are taking a technological turn. But there are still plenty of instances of old-fashioned suppression — such as a publicly funded charter school in Malden whose ban on hair extensions affects black female students almost exclusively; […]
Warby Parker co-founders tell new grads it’s fine to make it up as you go along Before Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa started Warby Parker with their fellow cofounders Jeff Raider and Andy Hunt, they felt the way a lot of new grads do: extremely well-educated in a narrow range of really specific things. “Three of us had management consulting and finance backgrounds, and the other came from a nonprofit,” Gilboa […]
WGBH Holding a president to account in an age of extreme polarization I found the comments of these uninformed voters to be both amusing and disturbing — and something else as well. At a time of an emerging crisis over what the president knew about the Russia connection and when he knew it, we are so hopelessly divided by partisanship and tribal loyalties that we are incapable […]
Newsday ‘Chaos’ gets a workout in the new age of Donald Trump Bert Spector, a business professor at Northeastern University, cited “chaos” in a commentary published this week, stating that the president was never really a CEO before. “That is, he didn’t run a major public corporation with shareholders and a board of directors that could hold him to account,” Spector wrote. “Instead he was the head […]