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freecounterpoint (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
This is just like Tecs. He gets all worked up after some friendly criticism and gets in the car with a couple of his preprints and drives to the liquor store for some Harpoon IPA--warm, in cans. Then he drives around, and parks at Jamaica Pond or at the Boston Public Garden, pops open a tepid brew and looks at his old papers brooding,"Goddam roT, I'll kill him. He he he doesn't even know what...
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Boston Daily Photo Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
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...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
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.
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Bostonist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
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.
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3rd House Journal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[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...
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News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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,...
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Middleboro Review (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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...
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Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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...
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Adrants (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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.
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Boston Daily Photo Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
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...
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Relevant Science (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
This medieval mariner left a manuscript that made him famous. Michael of Rhodes You can see in Amazon a book about him and his book, written by Pamela O. Long. From her paper we read: "With the help of Google, we created our ideal list of who should be on the team, and we e-mailed most of them to ask if they would be interested in working with us—if, in fact, we could raise the necessary...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new weekly television competition was announced today by Boston public broadcaster WGBH. Premiering on WGBH in March 2010, High School Quiz Show will celebrate and showcase academic achievement in Massachusetts schools statewide. High School Quiz Show will feature up to 144 students from 24 Massachusetts schools competing in a fast-paced question and answer format, both as...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Boston public health officials say a 65-year-old man has become the first person to die from swine flu in the city this fall.
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Far Outliers (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
For several weeks, durai (dry) was Rachel's antonym for we', diti, 'ow (wet, dirty, ouch). She would talk about dirty and dry hands, or ouch (sore) and dry knees. Lately, she has started to use deen (clean) sometimes. Di and dido (big, little) sometimes occur instead of her old favorites wow, wee. She is beginning to use location words hia, dea, roro dea (here, there, over there), and when she bruises...
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swetzelx7 | 11/20/2008
The War at Home is about two parents Dave (played by Michael Rapaport, from “Boston Public”) and Vicky (played by Anita Barone, from “The Jeff Foxworthy Show”) and their daily battles against their teenage children to keep their home, their children, and themselves in order.
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