Welcome to the New Cambridge Observer: News and Views from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Art collector to share his vision at Lacoste starting Feb 3, 2018, Concord, MA
Cambridge writer, photographer, consultant and art lover Anita Harris plans to attend the opening of “Through the Eyes of a Collector,”at the Lacoste Gallery, in Concord, Ma.T he exhibit offers an insight into the art collecting practices of Steve Alpert, an avid ceramic art lover and collector who has been a board member of MFA…
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Georgia O’Keeffe Inspirational at the Peabody Essex
Cambridge writer Anita Harris felt inspired by the Georgia O’keeffe show at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA–which exhibits the work of a groundbreaking artist who lived and worked into her late 90s, and whose work remains impactful, today.
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Wearables & Robots: Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part II
Health Science writer Anita Harris reports on digital innovations aimed at transforming a troubled US health care system. In this blog, part II of a series, she describes wearables, robots, monitors, and several startups with IT to improve and cut costs of long term and health caredelivery systems.
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Women’s March Photos, Cambridge 2018
Writer Anita Harris enjoyed the spirit and creativity exhibited at the 2018 Women’s March in Cambridge, MA. Here, she shares some of her favorite signs.
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Free chocolate tasting Sat Jan 27: Harvard Square!
Anita Harris is looking forward to her second Harvard Square chocolate tasting, tho she has qualms about sharing the info as last year she stood in the chocolate line for quite some time. It was worth the wait, though, she says.
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Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I
At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial…