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By adamg - 11/21/14 - 8:31 am

Cambridge Day reports on a honey of a battle between a temple that has bee hives and neighbors who swarmed city officials with complaints. The temple's rabbi said she was stung by criticism over the bees, which one irate resident compared to "livestock." Naturally, in a city that once set up a Peace Commission, the chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals urged the two sides to try to hug it out before getting his board involved.

By Anonymous - 11/18/14 - 2:04 pm

necn.com:
Jim Braude of NECN, has aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, John McDonough, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health who helped to draft the Affordable Care Act, on his show Broadside to discuss MIT prof. and resident of Lexington. MA Jonathan Gruber's controversial remarks. Watch the video here:

By adamg - 11/17/14 - 3:47 pm
North Point Park in the rain

JB Parrett braved the elements to show us North Point Park in Cambridge this afternoon.

By adamg - 11/14/14 - 8:04 am

The Tech reports on growing outrage over the way pedestrians can be mowed down along the river road.

By adamg - 11/12/14 - 2:14 pm

Harvard Art Museums Construction Time-Lapse

Jim Meegan put together this five-year time lapse of the renovation and expansion of the Harvard Art Museums out of 85,000 still photos. The museums re-open to the public this Sunday.

By adamg - 11/9/14 - 2:48 pm
Guy with wings in Harvard Square

Actually, we have no idea why this guy is just standing in Harvard Square, but we suspect his name isn't Clarence and he's not looking for George Bailey, so a lost bet makes sense to us. Nikki, who snapped his photo at 2:30 p.m., reports:

Won't say what he's up to but hasn't moved in at least 20 mins.

By adamg - 11/6/14 - 11:40 am

Hubway announced today its bicycle-rental stations will again remain open this winter in Cambridge - except for the stations at Lafayette Square/Main Street and Dana Park, which will be taken out to let snow plows plow snow.

By adamg - 11/6/14 - 7:30 am

The Crimson reports on a faculty meeting got a little testy when professors wanted to know why the world's greatest university was surveilling them and students. A muckymuck said it was part of a study by one group of researchers on student class attendance.

Prior to beginning the study, Bol said, he was given approval by Harvard’s Institutional Review Board, a federally mandated body that assesses academic research. According to Bol, members of that committee said that his work “did not constitute human subjects research,” and, as such, did not require notification or permission of those involved.

By adamg - 11/4/14 - 9:49 am

They start around 10:40.

Via MIT.

By adamg - 11/4/14 - 8:37 am
Truck that shouldn't be on Memorial Drive

Antibike snapped a truck that shouldn't be there this morning on Memorial Drive just before the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

By adamg - 11/3/14 - 1:04 pm
Crashed car at Inman Pharmacy

Michael Peretti surveyed the damage at the Inman Pharmacy on Cambridge Street around 12:50 p.m.

By adamg - 11/2/14 - 11:08 pm

Drive Through Boston - 1964 and 2014

By now, you've probably seen MIT professor Kevin Lynch's movie of his drive around Cambridge and Boston in 1964. Danny Shaw recreated that famous drive this year - and put the two side by side.

Via Boston Reddit.

By adamg - 11/2/14 - 4:15 pm

Shortly after 4 p.m., Boston and Cambridge firefighters and Boston and State police began rushing to the Mass. Ave. Bridge on a report of a sailboat tipping over in the wind and dumping somebody in the water. Just as firefighters were about to begin their "tech rescue," however, the person managed to get back in the boat and make his way to shore on the Cambridge side - where he was met by troopers and Cambridge firefighters. He declined medical attention.

By adamg - 10/31/14 - 12:52 pm
Cambridge burglary suspect

Possible suspect in Chestnut Street break-in. Photos by CPD.

Cambridge Police report several Cambridgport residents have come home from work recently to find their homes broken into

The department says residents have been broken into on Sidney, Brookline, Chestnut, Magazine and Williams streets and Kelly Road. To date the burglaries have all happened on a Tuesday or Wednesday, typically between 1 and 6 p.m.

Entry into the homes occurred via an unlocked window, cut window screen and unlocked basement door in three of the housebreaks.

By adamg - 10/30/14 - 7:48 pm
MBTA train going along Grand Junction rail line in Cambridge

Neal Doyle captured a new commuter-rail train chugging along the Grand Junction rail line in Cambridge towards the Charles today.

The T and Amtrak occasionally use the line, which crosses the Charles under the BU Bridge, to transfer trains from the north side of Boston to the south - it's the only north/south link inside 495. State officials hope to one day use the line to connect the Worcester Line to North Station, although Cambridge city officials remain opposed.

By adamg - 10/28/14 - 9:57 am

Right outside the CVS. Medical examiner and police, who covered the body with a sheet, now on scene.

UPDATE: Cambridge Police report the state medical examiner is now investigating the "sudden death" of the woman whose body was found there.

By adamg - 10/28/14 - 8:13 am

WBUR reports on the details of a survey of MIT students - which also found most never report the assaults. The Tech reports the school's president is "disturbed by the extent and nature of the problem."

By adamg - 10/27/14 - 9:47 am

Quiet Desperation "EMF" (Pilot) A Boston Based Reality Series

A look at EMF, a DIY space for artists and musicians in Central Square, in a region where art spaces are rapidly disappearing in an onslaught of luxury apartments. With its own radio station.

By adamg - 10/24/14 - 9:23 am

The New Yorker talks to Harvard and MIT researchers trying to figure out how to battle Ebola by deciphering its genetic code, including Harvard biology professor Pardis Sabeti, who heads the "Ebola war room" at MIT's Broad Institute.

The next morning, Gire took a car to the M.I.T. campus, carrying a small box containing the tubes of droplets with the Ebola RNA. There, in a lab at the Broad Institute, he and a colleague named Sarah Winnicki, working alongside two other research teams, prepared the RNA to be decoded. The work took four days, and Gire and Winnicki hardly slept. By the end, they had combined all fourteen samples into a single, crystal-clear droplet of water solution. The drop contained about six trillion snippets of DNA. Each was a mirror image of a piece of RNA from the blood samples. Most of the snippets were human genetic code, but among them were about two hundred billion snippets of code from Ebola.

By adamg - 10/24/14 - 8:58 am
Christopher Hicks

Transit Police report arresting a Cambridge resident on charges he started an unprovoked attack on a man on a Red Line train, then followed him out of the train into Harvard Square station and punched him in the head.

Christopher Hicks, 26, is scheduled for arraignment today in Cambridge District Court on charges of assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon - a shod foot - police say.

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