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Frontiers of Brain Science, day one

I spent Thursday and Friday at a conference on the brain, Frontiers of […]

Writings

Dumber in the city?

Writers never actually own what they write, no matter who holds copyright. Once […]

journalism

Digital media is a bugle

I was involved in an online debate about the sale of Re/code, a […]

Trips

Evermore, at The Poe Museum

Lots of places claim Edgar Allan Poe. He was born in Boston in […]

journalism, Writings

Net Neutrality, John Oliver and the future of news

In What Reporters Need to Know About Covering Net Neutrality, I highlight some […]

Miscellaneous, readings, Trips

The other immigration problem (?)

In 2011, I listened as an economist predicted massive downward pressure on housing […]

Writings

Off the rails at the MBTA

Boston’s transit system has become national news. The trains have been barely functioning, […]

journalism

Can newsletters replace newspapers?

I have for years argued with friends that the only model which works […]

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The data we leave lying around

I did a piece for the Boston Globe’s Ideas section on an experiment […]

readings

Fantastic reality in Don Quixote

The last novel I finished in 2014 was Don Quixote. Almost no great […]

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