A Harvard report suggests to Anita M. Harris that the structure of media and the definition of “news” allowed Trump to hornswoggle the press–even as he badmouthed reporters and editors strugglng to make sense of him.
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A visit to the Tang Museum at Skidmore College leads author Anita M. Harris to contemplate pattern and disruption in art, nature, and our lives.
Guest commentator Mark Orton presents a dark view of the future following the 2016 presidential election.
In this independent commentary, author Steven Cushing draws parallels between 1933 Germany and the present, and lays out similarities between presidential candidate Donald Trump and Hitler, Caligulia, Mussolini, Whitey Bulger and others. He asks those considering voting for Trump: Would you entrust Bernie Madoff with the password to your bank account? Would you entrust Bill Clinton with the keys to your daughter’s bedroom? Do you really want to entrust the likes of Donald Trump with the keys to the nation’s nuclear codes? He then urges voters to, “in Trump’s words, let ‘common sense’ prevail, and as Ted Cruz said at the Republican convention, vote your conscience.”
“Convergence science has advanced across many fronts, from nanotechnology to regenerative tissue,” says Nobel Laureate Phil Sharp of MIT. “But the funding allocated for convergence research in biomedical science is small and needs to be expanded. In fact, there is no federal agency with the responsibility to fund convergence in biomedical research.”
Phil Sharp of the MIT Koch Institute invites the public to vote in the first “Convergence Idea Challenge.” Offering $4000 in prizes aimed at challenging emerging researchers to combine the life/physical sciences, information technology, social sciences, and engineering to improve human health.
After seeing the shocking documentary “An Open Secret,” Boston critic Sheila Green urges Hollywood, news outlets, theaters and the public to take up the issue of child sexual abuse in the American film industry.
