Frontiers of Brain Science, day two
Our second day at the Kavli Science Journalism Workshop took us deeper into […]
Category: Miscellaneous
The other immigration problem (?)
In 2011, I listened as an economist predicted massive downward pressure on housing […]
Companies want the improbable in their analytics hires
I interviewed Michael Rappa, the North Carolina State University computer science professor who […]
BostonNow, and next: A city’s API
Politics has a kind of magic to it; some man or woman emerges […]
The death of traveler’s checks
Gearing up for a trip to Panama, I stopped by my bank to […]
On the list
I’m going about this blogging thing all wrong. I was named to a […]
Quantum music
One quirk of reporting that the best stories you get when interviewing people […]
Outline of an Unknowable God, question three
We’re getting pretty close to having built an omniscient mind of our own, […]
The hacker as juvenile delinquent
The hacker as juvenile delinquent is an old meme. Hackers today are organized […]
The Gardner hits a sour note
The Boston Globe today wrote about how the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum had […]