For some with personal connections to past mistakes, the consequences of unfettered ingenuity are no more easily ignored than mushroom clouds on the horizon
Cambridge
GREAT HIKES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, FROM DORCHESTER TO MEDFORD
Amazing socially distanced walks in the woods near Boston.
VISIT THE BINJ POP-UP COMMUNITY NEWSSTAND IN CAMBRIDGE
BINJ staff and volunteers will be there every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 5pm through Dec. 20.
BOSTON’S MURKY WORLD OF OPEN-SOURCE COVID-19 VACCINE RESEARCH
The RaDVaC collective claims to have a COVID-19 vaccine you can make and take at home. With mainstream vaccines close to approval, the project raises puzzling questions about the politics and ethics of scientific research
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE TROLL TOLL
Municipalities brave Zoom learning curve in pandemic times.
IN NATIONWIDE PANDEMIC BIKE SHORTAGE, OPPORTUNITY POPS A WHEELIE AROUND BOSTON
“People need to reimagine what’s possible in terms of exercising outside, riding to work when it’s colder.”
BETTER BOSTON ARTS: CALLIE CHAPMAN
Working for structural changes in policy and zoning to support the arts in Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE POLS, POLICE COMMISSIONER MELT DOWN OVER BLM DEBATE
Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations
HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW
Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic
CAMBRIDGE TEMPORARY HOMELESS SHELTER OPENS DAY LATE AFTER TESTING MANDATE
A temporary homeless shelter opened Saturday night at the War Memorial Recreation Center in Mid-Cambridge—after two weeks before city councillors and a day late after a last-minute change requiring guests to test negative for COVID-19. Results from tests at the city’s warming center for the homeless Thursday did not arrive until Saturday afternoon.