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The media has been full of stories today about the press conference held by NASA to announce a paper published in Science. They haven’t done a very good job of explaining what scientists have found, so I’d like to try to clear some things up. I’d also like to use…
Read More »The Boston Globe is reporting today on its breaking news Business Updates that DiagnosisONE has moved its headquarters from Nashua, N.H., to the CrossPoint Towers in Lowell. …The opening of a larger headquarters office is the latest example of DiagnosisONE’s aggressive growth plans as the company expands its operations to…
Read More »The BostonHerald.com is reporting that the long-awaited sale of the Caritas Christi Health Care sysytem – formerly owned by the Archdiocese of Boston – to Cerberus Capital management has been completed. The sale was dependent – among other things – on the approval of Attorney General Martha Coakley, licensure of the…
Read More »Looking at the fallen leaves in my back yard and on the South Common this weekend, I noticed a visual correlation. Maybe I’ve been looking at too many pictures of the cosmos, but it occurred to me that the leaf-strewn ground, if turned downside up, could look a little like…
Read More »For some reason, November 6th has been declared Carl Sagan Day, to honor the great communicator of science. I can’t find an explanation for why today was picked; perhaps it was the date of some major achievement in his career. Last year I believe I posted a passage from his…
Read More »Cliff on right-side-of-lowell has a new link to a blog by freelance reporter Michael Yon in the AfPak zone that includes a new stunning photograph of Mount Everest. Yon made a side trip to the Himalayas. Here’s the link to see the image.
Read More »So, hard facts. Nineteen nations have set new all-time temperature records this summer. Federal scientists have just announced that we’ve come through the warmest six months, twelve months, and decade on record. A powerful new study published in “Nature” shows that global warming has cut phytoplankton populations by half in…
Read More »“In a nutshell, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus one percent; a recent previous estimate had a margin of error of three times as much. By weight it is four percent atoms, 23 percent dark matter—presumably undiscovered elementary particles left over from the Big Bang—and 73…
Read More »The Boston Globe is reporting on “breaking news” that Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis Spina held a hearing on the sale of the Caritas Christi Heath Care system to Cerberus Capital Management today. Justice Spina signed-off on the transaction tranferring the assets of a non-profit entity to a for-profit entity. This was the…
Read More »In today’s New York Times – writer Robert Pear presents the Massachusetts and Utah plans as what he calls the “book ends” of state health insurance exchange models. High on the agenda when state legislatures convene next year, health insurance exchanges hold the key to health care overhaul. Read his full article here in…
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