Opinion
Inconvenient truth
Boston Globe • March 2012
PEOPLE HAVE offered many suggestions for dealing with climate change. There have been international political agreements, and attempts at market-based solutions. Some have suggested the
Read more →Community Chest
Boston Globe • March 2012
IF THE COMMON person wants to become a patron of the arts, the Internet has an answer. At Kickstarter, anyone can browse through the dreams
Read more →Bridge Year
Boston Globe • March 2012
IN THE COMING weeks, a nation of on-edge high school seniors will be hearing back from colleges: thumbs up or thumbs down, thick envelope or
Read more →The Brain, Weaponized
Boston Globe • February 2012
ONE BY one, the disciplines of science have lost their innocence. For chemistry, the defining moment came during World War I, when the Germans unleashed
Read more →Save the Whales . . . Going Once
Boston Globe • January 2012
OUR PLANET'S approach to whale conservation has been on sorry display in the waters around Antarctica. Massive Japanese ships plow through the frigid waters of the
Read more →A Dark Force, Unleashed Online
Boston Globe • January 2012
THERE IS a new kind of threat gathering online. Until now, the story of the Internet wars has been a tale of escalating software. Shadowy criminals
Read more →Education's Coconut Cake Problem
Boston Globe • December 2011
HARVARD PROFESSOR Roland Fryer has made a discovery with the potential to transform public education. To understand it, though, it helps to first hear a
Read more →The Gold Standard for Giving
Boston Globe • November 2011
THIS IS the time of year when the deluge of charity solicitations begins. How do you give? Is there a non-profit that you've been donating
Read more →TV's Sleeper Effect
Boston Globe • October 2011
THE NATION'S pediatricians recently warned that children under two should not be allowed to watch television. All the science suggests that screen time is not
Read more →Vitality grows on trees
Boston Globe • October 2011
THIS IS a time of year when trees remind us how worthy they are of appreciation. Look out across New England's rolling hills, and the
Read more →Expanding the "Boston Miracle"
Boston Globe • October 2011
IN THE fall of 2006, crime-fighting guru David Kennedy received a phone call from the mayor of Cincinnati. The city, the mayor explained, was on
Read more →Science and Twitter #mixwell
Boston Globe • October 2011
WHEN TWITTER first arrived five years ago, it took a lot of flak. While the service was touted by an advance guard of social media
Read more →The single-sex school myth
Boston Globe • September 2011
OVER THE last decade, a new solution to the crisis in public education has emerged. Recent neuroscience, the thinking goes, is finally showing that the brains
Read more →Flipping for Math
Boston Globe • September 2011
BY THE time I was in the fifth grade, I loved math and I hated math. I adored the beauty of the subject. But at school,
Read more →The limits of farming
Boston Globe • September 2011
BY THE year 2050, Earth will be home to another 2 or 3 billion more people. The most vexing question is: How will we feed
Read more →Follow evidence, not gut feeling, on sex offenders
Boston Globe • August 2011
THE MOST disturbing experience I've had in some time was a visit to a state government website. On the screen was a list of all the
Read more →Fraud in a lab coat
Boston Globe • August 2011
MARC HAUSER has plenty of company when it comes to scientific misconduct. Hauser, you'll recall, had built a brilliant career at Harvard. He directed a primate
Read more →Life with Dyslexia
Boston Globe • September 2003
For more than 15 years, I have had a secret. My wife knows. My family knows, as do a few close friends. But
Read more →The Dark Side of Camp
Washington Monthly • September 1995
"Mommy, show them what they might win!" screams Babette from the front of the bar. Babette is the young game-show hostess, dressed in a frilly
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