Secular/sacred 11th-16th Century: Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston Daily Photo Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saw this whale chart in the Boston Public Library. It is difficult to photograph because the colors are so faint and the print so small. Basically, it is a 19th c. water color of the whale highway in the Pacific Ocean. The different colors represent the breed of whale and their migration patterns and the time of year they were expected to arrive in those waters. The Cape of Massachusetts had many small...
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A speech recognition milestone, if it works robustly Soon you’ll be able to understand thousands of Internet videos even if the sound is turned down. With an assist from Boston public TV station WGBH, Google Inc. has developed technology that will automatically add on-screen captions to video streams on its popular YouTube website. New software will make YouTube videos accessible for hearing-impaired...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg tells The Daily Beast about life in the Twilight zone-and (spoiler alert!) gives us a walk-through of the differences between the book and the movie. In 2006, Summit Entertainment hired Melissa Rosenberg to write the...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Weeks before its predicted peak, the swine flu pandemic already has hit a historic high in the Bay State, with one hospital unit reporting a third of its nurses felled by...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Soon you’ll be able to understand thousands of Internet videos even if the sound is turned down. With an assist from Boston public TV station WGBH, Google Inc. has developed technology that will automatically add on-screen captions to video streams on its popular YouTube website.
Right Cinema (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Check out Allison Munn, One Tree Hill actress! Munn has been seen in dozens of TV roles and movies. Learn more about Allison here. Actress Allison Munn is currently playing Lauren in One Tree Hill. Lauren is the teacher of Jamie Scott. Munn is scheduled to appear on the CW series for [...]
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As farmer's markets close, BostonZest is daydreaming about a Boston Public Market . Would you be interested in a year-round local food experience? Try Local Harvest for finding a resource in your area, or join the public market crusade.
3rd House Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
[Duck pond, Boston Public Garden; 10/25/09] Having launched this blog five years ago today, I feel that I should post a retrospective of my life and blogging over the past five years (not counting the prior year with my first...
Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped to start a program which would reward teacher performance. Rather than accepting free money for the teachers who are members, the Boston Teachers Union is trying to block the...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Think your kids won't eat healthy foods? Think again. A preliminary report of the Chefs in Schools Initiative by the Harvard School of Public Health, funded by Project Bread, proves that kids not only like healthy school meals, but actually eat more of the healthy foods than they would if they were eating a traditional school meal. The study sought to analyze the value of the Chefs in Schools Initiative,...
Middleboro Review (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
For those interested in The Big Dig , this sounds like a dynamite lecture! The Big Dig: The Most Expensive Public Works Project in History When Thursday, November 19, 2009, 6:30 – 7:30pm Where West End Branch of the Boston Public Library 151 Cambridge Street Library West End Neighborhood West End Type of Event Talks & Lectures Cost free Audience College Students, Adults, Seniors Note Sean...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
If you read Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels, have you wondered how Spenser developed his code of ethics? How did he become the unusual man he is? Parker answers that question in a novel designed for teens, Chasing the Bear . For teens interested in mysteries, it's an interesting introduction to the entire series. For those of us who have read all of the Spenser books, it answers questions. While...
Adrants (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
From Boston Public Health Commission comes Ethan "Smizzy" McCoy and Flu Rap. You gotta love rap that works the word " diarrea " into the mix and includes outtakes AND A FACEBOOK. Kleenex on... the... mic.
Boston Daily Photo Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Saw this framed broadside in the Boston Public Library. Boston was a center for the abolitionist movement in the nineeteenth century. Although a Free State, Federal law imposed severe penalties on any person assisting a slave to reach Canada through the Underground Railroad. Bounty hunters lurked and even freemen of color would be kidnapped off the streets and transported back to the South to be sold...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Nicholas Negroponte is a living legend in the world of technology. His accomplishments are many, including a co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory and the founder and chairman of the One Laptop Per Child program. Recently, he spoke with Bostonist about a few issues that will be of interest to ResourceShelf readers. Bostonist: Will we [...]
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