Frontiers of Brain Science, day one
I spent Thursday and Friday at a conference on the brain, Frontiers of […]
Dumber in the city?
Writers never actually own what they write, no matter who holds copyright. Once […]
Digital media is a bugle
I was involved in an online debate about the sale of Re/code, a […]
Evermore, at The Poe Museum
Lots of places claim Edgar Allan Poe. He was born in Boston in […]
Net Neutrality, John Oliver and the future of news
In What Reporters Need to Know About Covering Net Neutrality, I highlight some […]
The other immigration problem (?)
In 2011, I listened as an economist predicted massive downward pressure on housing […]
Off the rails at the MBTA
Boston’s transit system has become national news. The trains have been barely functioning, […]
Can newsletters replace newspapers?
I have for years argued with friends that the only model which works […]
The data we leave lying around
I did a piece for the Boston Globe’s Ideas section on an experiment […]
Fantastic reality in Don Quixote
The last novel I finished in 2014 was Don Quixote. Almost no great […]