WGBH All revved up about the death of Sandra Bland The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe were back on Boston Public Radio for “All Revved Up.” They talked about the arrest and death of Sandra Bland in Hempstead, Texas. The following questions were paraphrased, and Price and Monroe’s answers were edited where noted […]. The Rev. Emmett G. Price III is a […]
WGBH All revved up: Mothers turn in sons, former NAACP leader resigns, and Vatican debates climate change The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe joined Boston Public Radio Monday for their regular segment, All Revved Up. Price and Monroe talked about two Boston mothers who turned their sons in for their suspected roles in the murder of a 16-year-old. They also talked about the former head of a Washington NAACP suspected […]
Women don’t talk more than men, they’re just more likely to collaborate, study finds In a world full of “Chatty Cathys” and “Mansplainers,” which gender really talks more? Whomever you think is more talkative, there’s probably a study to back you up. Women have long been assumed the more talkative sex, but some studies indicate that men may be the bigger talkers while others found no difference between the […]
Average is the new green: How Millennials are redefining environmentalism There are few places in the world quite like Indonesia, where exploding urban and rural populations meet some of Earth’s most diverse coral reefs and rainforest. A stunning archipelago of over 13,000 islands, it ranks second in the world for biodiversity and holds the ninth largest city on the planet. It’s also the place I […]
How the Las Vegas shooting does and doesn’t fit the pattern of mass shootings The two shooters in the Las Vegas violence were a man and a woman, police said, which also makes this episode unusual, because 97 percent of these shooters are male. Las Vegas police said they believe the female shooter shot and killed the male gunman before taking her own life. According to the FBI, four […]
The 10 most polluted states for people of color Glaring economic inequality has become one of the most talked about issues in post-recession America. But a new study from the University of Minnesota shows the reasons why racial inequality shouldn’t be swept aside–especially when it’s related to an additional 7,000 deaths a year. Published in the journal PLoS One, the study details the massive […]
Here are five threats that could slow down the Bay State’s economic recovery The latest MassBenchmarks report showed a state economy in full forward speed, with an annualized growth rate of roughly 5 percent projected for the first half of 2014. The happy times are here again, right? Well, not exactly. Sure, when I talked to Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economist and report author, he seemed hopeful […]
Forbes The Making of an Entrepreneur A report published by Ernst & Young called Nature or nurture? Decoding the DNA of the entrepreneur, argues that entrepreneurial leaders are made, not born. According to the report, “There is no single entrepreneurship gene. But there are traits and experiences that make it more likely that an individual will choose the path of entrepreneurship […]
MIT Technology Review The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a virtual nurse and exercise coach that are surprisingly likable and effectiveâeven if they’re not quite as affable as the medical hologram on Star Trek. In fact, patients who interacted with a virtual nurse named Elizabeth said they preferred the computer simulation to an actual doctor or nurse because […]
Newsweek The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction Like many colleges, Washington University in St. Louis offers children of its faculty free tuition. So Leonard Green, a professor of psychology there, did all he could to persuade his daughter to choose the school. He extolled its academic offerings, praised its social atmosphere, talked up its extracurricular activitiesâand promised that if Hannah chose Washington […]
MIT Technology Review How close is AI to decoding our emotions? Emotion AI is becoming a big business. We talked to leading researchers about how good the tech actually is. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University
Your phone is not secretly spying on your conversations. It doesn’t need to. On the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode’s Kara Swisher talked with Northeastern University researchers Christo Wilson and David Choffnes about a popular online conspiracy theory: Smartphones are secretly turning on their microphones to record conversations and serve us more targeted ads. Wilson and Choffnes just completed a year-long investigation into 17,000 of the most popular Android apps; […]