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I joined the 500 million member club called Facebook after delaying for a long time because it looked to me like another form of media to keep up with. When I was a kid, my family was late getting a color TV, so maybe there’s a pattern. However, my first…
Read More »For perspective, here’s an essay by Columbia University physics scholar Brian Greene about what we know and don’t know about our largest neighborhood, the universe. Read his commentary here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »Award-winning author Jane Brox, who grew up and lived in Dracut until recently, will be among the featured faculty at the prestigious annual Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, August 10 to 20, 2011. For details, visit www.middlebury.edu/blwc Her faculty colleagues will include Chang-rae Lee, Philip Levine, and…
Read More »Writing in the Wall Street Journal, columnist Peggy Noonan praises President Obama’s speech in Tucson.
Read More »The story about Evergreen Solar shutting down Mass. operations and shifting to Chinese production made the front of the nytimes.com site. See it here. This case underscores how complex the global economy has become. On the other hand, the news from Detroit was good this week with the car-makers bouncing back.
Read More »NYTimes columnist Paul Krugman today writes about the divergent moral views afoot in the USA today. He uses plain language to describe a serious problem. Read his opinion here, and get the NYT if you want more. His writing colleague David Brooks also looks at the moral landscape and sees…
Read More »The New Yorker’s David Remnick comments on President Obama’s speech in Tucson on Wednesday.
Read More »George Condo is one of America’s most important painters of our time. He’s from Chelmsford. These days he lives in Manhattan. The January 17 issue of The New Yorker includes a ten-page profile of Condo by Calvin Tomkins, a staff writer for the magazine since 1960. Tomkins gives Condo the…
Read More »The boston.com headline reads “JFK Archives Open to the World.” Read the article here describing how the Kennedy Library in Boston did it. UMass Lowell wants to do the same with the Martin T. Meehan Papers, Paul E. Tsongas Papers, and other documents and materials associated with the members of Congress who…
Read More »See this new feature from www.aol.com with Sarah Brady’s message about improving the nation’s gun laws.
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