Cambridge
By adamg - 8/24/19 - 10:46 am
Atlas Obscura follows Dave Hebb, a "commercial archaeologist," on a quest to find local small-business signs made by a single manufacturer, signs you've probably never paid any attention to but the style of which you'll instantly recognize.
By adamg - 8/22/19 - 8:33 pm
MIT President L. Rafael Reif made the pledge today in an open letter to the MIT community after two days of publicity about professors leaving the MIT Media Lab in disgust over the money - and shmoozing - it accepted from the now dead convicted sex offender. Read more.
By adamg - 8/22/19 - 10:20 am
WBZ reports a man pulled out a jack knife and stabbed an acquaintance in a fight during a fitness class at the Y on Wednesday evening.
By adamg - 8/17/19 - 12:20 pm
A verb, meaning: To ram your truck into a bridge or overpass because you thought the "CARS ONLY" signs at the onramps were just suggestions. Can be done on the river roads - Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Drive and Memorial Drive - but also at select bridges elsewhere, such as the East Street Bridge that carries the Franklin Line near Endicott station in Dedham.
By adamg - 8/14/19 - 4:10 pm
As Orange Line riders vie for the chance to ride that One New Train, Red Line riders get to shake their fists at the tracks in frustration, what with delays now up to 15 minutes caused by what the T says is "a train with its brakes holding" at Alewife.
By adamg - 8/11/19 - 12:32 pm
A group that says it's based in Rome says it has been placing small metal boxes with currency notes inside in cities around the world to see what people would do with money they didn't expect to get. Read more.
By adamg - 8/10/19 - 5:26 pm
One of the boxes on a Cambridge bench yesterday while guarded by Bronson.
UPDATE: Group that says it's based in Rome takes responsibility.
Bomb squads from both Boston and Cambridge Police today recovered small metal boxes with taped "Open Me" notes on the side as the departments urged the public to be cautious and to call 911 if they found more. Read more.
By adamg - 8/10/19 - 10:56 am
A federal judge yesterday ruled that two Harvard undergraduates can continue their federal lawsuit that the school is ruining their futures and discriminating against them by effectively barring them from membership in male-only "finals" clubs in Harvard Square, but only if they drop their "John Doe" pseudonyms and reveal their true names. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/19 - 2:54 pm
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit against Harvard and the Harvard Law Review by groups that claim they want to restore "meritocracy" to American higher education because their suit failed to provide the most minimal of details that even a first-year law student should have included. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/19 - 10:09 am
The Charles River Conservancy hopes to install a "floating wetlands" at North Point Park next spring to test whether the reintroduction of wetlands to the Charles River basin could shield enough microscopic animals to eat and so control the bacteria that now sometimes turn that stretch of river into a hazard to both man and beast. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/19 - 12:19 pm
Heavy police presence. Photo by Davina.
People working or living near JFK and Eliot streets in Harvard Square were told to shelter in place as police conducted what turned into a successful hunt for a man wanted for murdering his father in Philadelphia. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/19 - 11:59 am
The Harvard Crimson has the details in the dispute over who discovered a particular gene-changing technique first; Berkeley is using words like "pattern of deception" and "cherry-picked data" in a complaint filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office. Harvard and MIT volleys back with words like "baseless."
By adamg - 8/2/19 - 11:22 am
Transit Police have released photos of a woman they say attacked a disabled person at the Harvard Square T stop around 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
By theszak - 7/26/19 - 2:16 pm
Radio Station Field Trip 57 - WMBR at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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By adamg - 7/25/19 - 10:37 am
The Charles River Watershed Association reports a bloom of blue-green algae - which is actually a type of bacteria - in the Charles River between the BU Bridge and the Museum of Science. The stuff can kill dogs and make people pretty sick.
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