Tag: Boston blog
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Shorenstein Report: Election News Coverage Failed the Voters
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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Guest Post: Could Trump Be Even Worse Than You Think?
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…
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Convergence Science Transforming Biomedicine, MIT Report says
“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.”
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An Open Secret—the movie you’ll probably never get to see
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.
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Italian Life Science Innovators to present at Venture Cafe, Cambridge, Oct. 22
Mass Global Partners and the Italian Trade Agency cordially invite New Cambridge Observer readers and others to “Discover 13 of Italy’s most Innovative early stage life science companies developing therapeutics, devices and tools” October 22, 2015, in Kendall Square, Cambridge
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Cambridge’s Rachel Yurman: See Marville Exhibit at Met before it’s gone!
Spending a day out of Cambridge? If you wish you were in Paris but can only make it to New York –– take your dreams to the Met for a morning or afternoon and see “Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris” and “Paris as Muse,: Photography 1840s-1930s,” both (through May 4) and The Passions of Jean-Baptiste…