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Puerto Rico prepares to vote on political status amid crisis
Critics question the timing of the newest referendum, coming about a month after Puerto Rico’s governor announced the island would enter a bankruptcy-like process to restructure part of its $73 billion public debt. “Pushing statehood under normal times would be difficult enough; to push while literally under bankruptcy court is absolutely ridiculous,” said Amilcar Barreto, […]
How the latest neuroscience can help you be a better person
In her new book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Barrett – a psychology professor at Northeastern University and psychiatry lecturer at Harvard Medical School, argues that the brain is not a system of separate parts – with an amygdala serving as the brain’s 911 operator, while the […]
In Trump times, cities must lead on climate change
AS A CANDIDATE, Donald Trump vowed he would abandon the Paris Agreement, reverse President Obama’s climate initiatives, and bring back coal. As president-elect, he’s been more circumspect, but his appointment of climate-change denier Myron Ebell to head the transition at the EPA suggests he may try to make good on these promises. If he does, […]
The ACLU Is Suing For The Right To Uncover Online Discrimination
In December, three Harvard researchers released a paper that showed the vacation rental site Airbnb can be a racist place, where people with black-sounding names like Lakisha or Rasheed have a harder time getting a booking than a Brent or Kristen. How did they uncover this bias? They set up 20 fake profiles and sent […]
Buzzfeed
College Lobby Group Will Oversee Flow Of Federal Aid Dollars In New Experiment
Two industry lobby groups have been selected to oversee the government’s latest experiment in higher education, which will allow alternative providers like coding boot camps to access federal financial aid money. The pilot program, announced Tuesday, will test out partnerships between traditional nonprofit colleges and alternative providers like the Flatiron School, a bootcamp where students […]
Scientific American
‘Living Shorelines’ Will Get Fast Track to Combat Sea Level Rise
As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as “living shorelines,” natural or nature-based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat. The Army Corps of Engineers is […]
When Should Hacking Be Legal?
When Aaron Swartz, a prominent programmer and digital activist, was arrested in 2011, he was halfway through a fellowship at Harvard’s Center for Ethics. Police took him in after he entered a computer closet at MIT and downloaded enormous amounts of data from JSTOR’s extensive database of academic research. Swartz was charged with 13 felonies, […]
Hope fades for a two-state solution. Is there another path to Middle East peace?
While the discussion in Britain about antisemitism and the limits of acceptable criticism of Israel is important, Israelis and Palestinians continue to kill and wound each other. The preoccupation with ignorant and offensive statements and Facebook posts of Labour politicians won’t stop anyone’s suffering in the Holy Land. Perhaps part of the reason we’ve become […]
Mother Jones
The science of why #NeverTrump will end up voting for Trump
Last February, New York Republican Rep. Peter King said Donald Trump was “not fit to be president, morally or intellectually.” In early May, he endorsed Trump. And King is not alone. Where many Republican Party members were once focused on Trump’s negatives, they’re now courting him. Like King, Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who previously labeled […]
Inside Philanthropy
Squeezed: Funders Grapple with Affordable Housing in a Pricey City
According to Citizens for Adequate Housing, Massachusetts’ housing wage (the minimum hourly wage needed to afford a two-bedroom apartment) is $24.08, which is 282 percent above the state’s minimum wage of $8.50 and well above the national average of $18.62. Those numbers explain why the family shelters here are full. Over 4,500 families are part […]
WGBH
Marco’s meltdown, Trump’s triumph, and more
I am writing this in a Best Western, wondering how I’m going to get to downtown Washington later today given that the Metro—shut down lest it burst into flames yet again—makes the MBTA look like a model of competence and efficiency. Hunter Thompson used to grab the Gideons Bible at moments like this and try […]
Fortune
Is this the 21st century’s duct tape?
It’s called “MesoGlue” but it’s got more soldering-like power than anything Elmer’s makes. A new glue that can stick metal to metal has been developed in a Northeastern University lab, opening the door to truly glue-able electronics. Until now, adhering metal to metal has been a difficult, messy process or required soldering—fusing two parts together […]