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Downsizing doomsday?
WITH BIDDING WARS heating up, construction booming, and mortgage rates still at historic lows, the housing market is finally on the rise — but a new problem might be on the horizon. And the baby boomers now pondering downsizing could be to blame. When empty nesters decide en masse to try and unload those sprawling homes in Newton […]
The Hijacking of MOOCs
The recent announcement from the California State University System regarding its embrace of edX massive open online courses (MOOCs) is interesting and depressing at the same time. As with many aspects of the MOOC phenomenon, it comes packaged with good and bad aspects bundled up together. Instructors will offer a “special ‘flipped’ version of an electrical engineering […]
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Northeastern University creates digital archive for marathon bombings
Researchers at Northeastern University are compiling a digital archive devoted to the Boston Marathon bombings, the university announced today in a statement. The “Our Marathon” project is sponsored by Northeastern’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, and will include photos, videos, and social media related to the attacks. The team will hold a series of public outreach events […]
This is not a test
Behind those familiar words lies a fundamental tenet of emergency management: Systems to protect the public need to be practiced and validated. As it is, first responders constantly test their response plans. These efforts can be small tabletop exercises, like those performed in the buildup to the Boston Marathon today, or large simulations of catastrophic […]
Revenge, justice, or just an end?
The tree-climbing seemed a bit much. So did the flag-waving, the “U.S.A.” €™-chanting, and the whooping in the streets. The celebrations, at the news of Osama bin Laden’s death, felt inappropriate somehow. Yes, America’€™s youth deserved a release. On the other hand, someone had died.