Newsday Jobs: Tips for looking good on paper and in person When Lynn Hazan, president of recruitment firm Lynn Hazan & Associates, found a candidate who had excellent experience on paper, she wanted to learn more about him. As it turned out, he was difficult to work with in person: He missed a scheduled talk with her, sounded annoyed with the staff on the phone and […]
What is Santorum’s path forward? Congratulations are in order for Rick Santorum. The former Pennsylvania senator rose from the ranks of the political dead Tuesday night to come within eight votes of a first-place Iowa finish. Saying he defied expectations could be the biggest understatement of the 2012 election cycle so far.
Security Management Think Tank Perspective: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Flynn Associate editor Matthew Harwood interviews professor Stephen Flynn, founding co-director of the new George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University.
CleanTechnica.com Researchers Develop Ultra Strong Non-Rare Earth Magnet Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts have developed a magnetic material which they say is very strong and does not require rare earth materials.
Chemistry World Column: The crucible Philip Ball considers some research that’s making a meal of science. My guess is that not many people reading this ate flampoyntes for their Christmas dinner. This pork and cheese pie, commonly enjoyed during the medieval yuletide, combines those ingredients with sugar, ginger and cinnamon. No thanks, you might say. But why not? Why do […]
Will 2012 be the year for economic optimists? The economic optimists have to get it right one of these days. Will this be the year?
Nature Physics The network takeover Reductionism, as a paradigm, is expired, and complexity, as a field, is tired. Data-based mathematical models of complex systems are offering a fresh perspective, rapidly developing into a new discipline: network science.
Scandals at Penn State and Syracuse, labor strife contribute to make 2011 worst of times Even after all the turmoil 2011 brought to sports, what with the NBA and NFL players and owners huddling with lawyers and accountants, more unsettling reports of brains ravaged by hard hits, and college players being given cash, tattoos, access to strip clubs and pretty much anything else you can imagine, the games still mattered.
Mayor Touts ‘Safest Decade’ New York is on pace for the “safest decade in recorded city history,” with homicides, fire-related fatalities and the speed at which ambulances arrive at life-threatening incidents near historical lows, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday.
Crime Keeps Falling Despite A Recession – But Why? We’ve reported that crime continues to fall in the United States. The FBI said it was down for the first six months of the year and the Justice Department said violent crime was down 12 percent in 2010.
New York Times: Joining Trend, College Grows Beyond Name After a century firmly anchored in Boston, Northeastern University is branching out - becoming Southeastern, Northwestern and perhaps Western and Midwestern as well.
Home sales up a fifth month November marked the fifth consecutive month of improved housing sales in Massachusetts, but 2011 is still likely to wind up being the slowest year for the stateâs real estate market in two decades, data released yesterday show.