Tonight’s Nova was about a palimpsest containing a long lost work of Archimedes: The Method. Not only did the WGBH program talk about Archimedes’ contributions to the field of mathematics, but a good portion of the show was about the techniques being used to conserve and read the text. There’s lots about it [...]
From this week’s subscriber-only Chronicle of Higher Education: New Jersey tried to seize video tapes from a class project exploring whether a death row inmate received a fair trial. The student’s lawyers argued that the project counted as journalism because of the nature of the class and the tapes could not be seized because [...]
The Nieman Foundation’s publication Nieman Reports has an article in the Summer issue about blogging the Iraq war.
The New England Press Association’s Bulletin has an article about blogging that states that blogging poses no threat to journalism, though some bloggers are good journalists. The article focuses on blogs in the Boston-area, but I don’t [...]
I read in Monday’s subscriber-only Chronicle of Higher Education that someone is proposing some changes to the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (Ferpa) that would make it possible for people to sue colleges and universities who violate their privacy. The changes would also extend protection to college/university applicants and some business partners.
How can people in Boston at a Jump (formerly Jump, Little Children) concert not dance when they hear the music? I can’t stop moving now and the concert ended at about 9:30 pm. Of course, I’m from those fantastic Music Farm days way back when 96 Wave was playing Jump as a new [...]
Tonight’s concert was amazing. Jump (formerly Jump, Little Children) only played for about 40 minutes, but it was an amazing set. They showed off some of their newer songs and a few favorites from Vertigo and Magazine. I didn’t recognize anything from Licorice Tea Demos or Buzz.
I really like their new sound. [...]