The Conversation Here’s how competition makes peer review more unfair A scientist can spend several months, in many cases even years, strenuously investigating a single research question, with the ultimate goal of making a contribution – little or big – to the progress of human knowledge. Succeeding in this hard task requires specialized, years-long training, intuition, creativity, in-depth knowledge of current and past theories and, […]
Fitness Isn’t a Lifestyle Anymore. Sometimes It’s a Cult They are November Project’s cofounders—and they totally fit their gladiatorial-sounding names: 6-foot-tall, bald, tattooed former collegiate rowers. Back in 2011, when the friends were trying to stay motivated during a Boston winter, they agreed to work out every weekday morning at 6:30, keeping track of their progress on a spreadsheet named for that first month, […]
Why aren’t millennial wages growing? Brendan Duke, associate director of economic policy at the Center for American Progress. Author of the new report, “When I Was Your Age: Millennials and the Generational Wage Gap.” (@brendan_duke) Alicia Sasser Modestino, professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University. (@SasserModestino) Center for American Progress: When I Was Your Age — “By all […]
PBS Psychological studies can’t always be reproduced, and that’s OK In her recent New York Times essay, Northeastern University psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett describes replication failures in genetics and physics as well as psychological science that led to marked progress in these fields. Nor is replication failure a modern phenomenon. Scientific American blogger Jared Horvath describes three famous replication failure cases from the history of science involving the work […]
WGBH Eyewitness testimony is unreliable: The SJC tries to reform its use The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the state’s highest, enjoys a storied place in the annals of progressive legal thought. Among its many notable achievements, the SJC laid the groundwork for the national recognition of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court last June through its innovative 2003 decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public […]
Does Fox’s ‘Empire’ break or bolster black stereotypes? Carole Bell, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who studies media, politics and identity, said many of the new shows on network television that feature nonwhite characters — including ABC’s Black-ish and Asian American-centered Fresh Off the Boat — begin with more stereotypical characterizations that have broadened as the shows progress. “I don’t think Cookie […]
Science Magazine Disease modelers project a rapidly rising toll from Ebola Alessandro Vespignani hopes that his latest work will turn out to be wrong. In July, the physicist from Northeastern University in Boston started modeling how the deadly Ebola virus may spread in West Africa. Extrapolating existing trends, the number of the sick and dying mounts rapidly from the current toll—more than 3000 cases and 1500 […]
Opening doors of dialogue, closing tunnels of revenge A way of opening dialogue comes across the Al di qua del ponte, as well as other innumerous messages of multicultural diversity, communication and mutual understanding. I remember when I was studying in Boston, the ISSI team — the international student and scholar institute at Northeastern University — instilled passion for cultures, education oriented to […]
Student projects could improve traffic Senior projects by two teams of civil engineering students at Northeastern University could help the town find creative responses to traffic woes on Route 106. “It’s a great opportunity for both the town and the students. We think it’s an excellent way to get input from some great young minds,” Town Manager William R. Ross […]
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ABC News Republicans, Don’t Cede Millennials to Democrats Just Yet Moreover, as Northeastern University Economist Andrew Sum recently pointed out, young workers and new graduates find themselves caught in a difficult job cycle. With baby boomers working later in life and employers able to find willing populations of older workers for even menial jobs, middle and lower class students and graduates have been unable begin their […]
Your Patient Is Your Partner: Collaboration Creates The Best Medical Outcomes In a recent interview, physician and noted social activist Dr. Paul Farmer gave this advice to graduating medical professionals: their real impact will come when they work in teams. As the co-founder of Partners in Health and a champion of improving health in underserved communities, Farmer’s work is built on building partnerships and applying successes and lessons […]