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Team 3: Harvard Tuition Scam
July 18, 2008 - 4:21pm — Sean
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Preservation Funds Sought for Shady Hill Square
June 12, 2008 - 2:43pm — kmklinger
By Karen Klinger
In the latest chapter in the effort to save the green centerpiece of Cambridge’s Shady Hill Square from development, residents whose houses surround the horseshoe-shaped property want to buy it with the help of Massachusetts Community Preservation Act (CPA) funds.
The homeowners have applied to the city for a $150,000 grant to help them purchase the land from a development company that holds a building permit to put up a 5,000-square-foot building in the middle of the grassy common that has served as a communal front yard for the square’s dozen semi-detached Colonial Revival stucco homes since they were built in 1915. read more...
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When Young Astronomers Are the Stars
May 20, 2008 - 6:46pm — kmklingerBy Karen Klinger
It was “Astronomy in the City” night at MIT’s Stata Center and the stars were shining brightly.
In this case, the stars were middle and high school students showing off projects they had created during the past year as participants in programs sponsored by the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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At the May 16 community showcase, the students from Boston and Lynn demonstrated what they’d taken away from three innovative programs funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA and designed to bring science learning into their communities. read more...
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Orbiting Telescope Linked to Cambridge Finds Young Supernova
May 16, 2008 - 4:53pm — kmklinger
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Cambridge Science Festival: Nobelist Reflects on New Era in Physics
May 5, 2008 - 5:43pm — kmklingerBy Karen Klinger
As a teenager, Jerome Friedman was a talented painter who turned down a scholarship to an art school against the advice of his teacher to study physics at the University of Chicago.
It proved to be the right choice.
Friedman, an emeritus professor at MIT, shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for research establishing the first solid evidence for the existence of quarks, building blocks for protons and neutrons--two main components of atoms.
In a talk at the MIT Museum during the Cambridge Science Festival, he reflected on his long career and his belief that with developments such as the recent completion of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, "I think we're coming into a new era of cosmology and particle physics and it's a very, very exciting time." read more...
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Come to the FreeMeet at MIT
May 5, 2008 - 1:08pm — Margaret
Quick, where can you get good stuff FREE?
At the end-of-the-year FreeMeet at MIT hosted by Students for Global Sustainability:
When: Friday May 9th
From 10:00-6:00
Where: At the MIT Student Center (W20-491)
See map at
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=W20&Buildings=go
Everyone is welcome, and you don't need to bring stuff to take stuff!
Reduce waste, reduce consumption
Take some time in the next day or so to go through your “stuff” and see what you don't use. Someone else can give a second life to things that are still usable, wearable, readable, playable, etc. But please use common sense; don't bring animals, open food, dangerous items, broken stuff, junk, etc.
Instead of contributing to a landfill (bad), bring your stuff to the FreeMeet (good) and save someone the trouble of buying what you can provide for free! read more...
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Cambridge Science Festival: I Take Thee ... Robot?
May 2, 2008 - 4:21pm — kmklingerBy Karen Klinger
MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle smiled as she recalled the conversation she had with a journalist for a leading science magazine who wanted to know why she opposed marriages between people and robots.
"He put me in the same camp as those who opposed marriage between lesbians or gay marriage," Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science and technology, told those gathered at the MIT Museum to hear her and colleague Cynthia Breazeal discuss "sociable robots."
The man accused her of "species chauvinism," she said. "It made me feel sad."
The talk by Turkle and Breazeal, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, was sponsored by the Cambridge Science Festival, a nine-day, citywide celebration of science and technology. read more...
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