We can’t just hold our noses and look away from academia’s dirty money
The 2018 Disobedience Award ceremony was a full MIT Media Lab spectacle. Carefully produced, lavishly ...
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Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
The 2018 Disobedience Award ceremony was a full MIT Media Lab spectacle. Carefully produced, lavishly ... read more
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Lulz
He made up a fictitious ideal reader named Spike. The memo read, “Spike works in advertising, but he goes to punk clubs at night,” and this and that. Fuck you and die.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
Recently, two scholars announced their plans to cut ties with the MIT Media Lab over its longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein ... read more
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
The pillar of independent journalism you’re fortunate enough to be reading at the moment used to be owned by the same corporation that publishes the upscale glossies Philadelphia Magazine and Boston Magazine.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
At DigBoston, we like to have a lot of interns working for us at all times. Particularly college journalism students who will soon be seeking jobs as full-time newspaper ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
Last month, during the fearsome heat wave that saw Boston temperatures soar to 98 degrees Fahrenheit for two days in a row, 400 chickens died in New Hampshire.
According to the ... read more
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
"Keohane and I went on this pub crawl through Cambridge, and I’m teetering down the street in my ridiculous high heels. We got into the People’s Republik, and there was a bunch of regulars, crusty old dudes, and I slammed my award on the bar. Keohane started telling people I have a glass eye. I rolled with it. It was beautiful."
Written by Filed Under: Letters
July 8, 2019
To the Editor,
My name is Joe Aiello, and I have been a resident of East Cambridge for the last ten years. I have spent countless volunteer hours over the last six years on the Sullivan Courthouse redevelopment, which includes the city-owned First Street Garage – ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
Every few months, we start a new intern cohort at DigBoston. And since we’ve taken to accepting larger numbers of interns—we currently have 16 for the summer—inevitably ... read more
Written by BARRY THOMPSON Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction
What follows amounts to the final episode of An Oral History Of The Dig: Volume 1 (The 90z – 2003). If this stumble down memory lane has sparked your joy thus far, don’t freak out; our story resumes with Volume Two in the weeks ahead and will continue into 2020.
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