Stuck In A Rut? Sometimes Joy Takes A Little Practice For thousands of years, there’s been a common belief in Western culture about emotions — that they are hard-wired and reflexive, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in the book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. “When something happens in the world … our emotions come on fast and uncontrollable, as if somebody […]
Law360 Proposal Takes Aim At Discriminatory Online Ad Practices A 2019 study from the nonprofit tech group Upturn and researchers with Northeastern University and the University of Southern California found that housing and employment ads delivered on Facebook can also skew to certain subgroups, even when targeting is not intended, raising questions about liability in the event of illegal discrimination.
Venture Beat The Linux Foundation takes control of open source Magma wireless ecosystem Originally developed by Facebook, the founding members of the Magma consortium include Arm, Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, FreedomFi, Qualcomm, the Institute of Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, and the Open Infrastructure Foundation.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Majlis Podcast: Stakes Are High In Kyrgyzstan Ahead Of Crucial Vote This week’s guests were: speaking from Kyrgyzstan, Gulnura Toralieva, a political analyst who was also a candidate for the Bir Bol party in the October elections; also from Kyrgyzstan, Kasiet Ysmanova, communications manager at the Bishkek-based social research group Central Asia Barometer; Bakyt Beshimov, a former deputy in Kyrgyzstan’s parliament and also a Kyrgyz ex-ambassador to […]
GBH Mass. SJC Takes On Facebook Data Sharing Case GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to discuss the case.
MarketWatch The advantage of family businesses in a crisis, and how they can adapt and become more resilientDuring crisis times for family businesses, “family members tend to come together and do whatever it takes to promote the family’s health and prosperity,” says Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University and a senior editor on the EIX Editorial Board. “Opportunities for a family to come together and work towards a common purpose make the family stronger.” During crisis times for family businesses, “family members tend to come together and do whatever it takes to promote the family’s health and prosperity,” says Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University and a senior editor on the EIX Editorial Board. “Opportunities for a family to come together and work […]
Mass. Employer Confidence Takes Historic Nosedive Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews, who will participate in the Legislature’s roundtable Tuesday, said the initial unemployment claims filed last week suggest an unemployment rate of 10%.
A Computer-Science Program Takes a Dramatic Approach to Getting Students to Open Up Students at Northeastern University, in Boston, all participate in the school’s signature experience — a semester “co-op” where they work full-time for a semester.
WGBH A Northeastern Study Takes The Measure Of Our Controversy-Driven, Poll-Obsessed Political Coverage Now a study conducted by the School of Journalism at Northeastern University has quantified just how bad things are. Looking at about 10,000 news articles from 28 ideologically diverse news outlets published between March and October, my colleagues and I found that coverage of the Democratic candidates “tracks with the ebbs and flows of scandals, viral moments […]
If the government takes gun research seriously, what should it study? Some suggestions were more idiosyncratic. Matthew Miller, a public health scholar at Northeastern University, said there’s more to understand about why people decline to unload and lock guns in storage, particularly when children are nearby.
Northeastern professor takes a closer look at comics Comics as a form is about “distillation and condensation,” writes Hillary Chute in her probing and engrossing new book, “Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere’’ (Harper). The book by the Northeastern professor and Cambridge resident details the evolution of the form, scrutinizing early cartoons in newspapers and magazines, the mimeographed pamphlets of the ’zine movement, the rise […]
WGBH Mass. takes center stage in debate over assisted suicide criminalization Massachusetts is taking center stage in the debate over the criminalization of assisted suicide. Today marks the start of the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter, whose chilling text messages three years ago arguably prompted her friend Conrad Roy III to kill himself. Also, late last week a trial court judge ruled that retired doctor […]