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IN 2022, GIVE SCIENTISTS SOME LOVE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 27, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"Biotechnology Research" by Idaho National Laboratory is licensed under CC BY 2.0

We can criticize the institutions that employ them without dismissing their vital work

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, biotech, Boston, Column, coronavirus, corporation, COVID-19, Democracy, holiday, holidays, humanity, J&J, Jason Pramas, Johnson & Johnson, love, Massachusetts, medcine, Moderna, new year, Omicron, pandemic, Pfizer, pharma, pharmaceutifcal, research, SARS-CoV-2, science, scientist, usa, vaccine

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON COVID-19

Written by HIROSHI MASHIMO, MD PHD Posted April 15, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Lessons to prepare, grieve, console, help, learn, teach, and unite

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Harvard Medical School, Health, Hiroshi Mashimo, HIV, influenza, mask, medicine, N95, Op-Ed, opinion, pandemic, science, slider, social distancing, VA Boston Healthcare System, wash your hands

EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON JOINS MOVEMENT TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 7, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Earth held up by a human hand in space

 

Calls for regional consortium of news outlets to improve and expand climate change coverage

 

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

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Climate Change, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, Environment, global warming, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, networking, new england, news, Protest, science, social movement

FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART III)

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 10, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

In parts one (DigBoston, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, As We Are magazine, Belden Electronics, Campaign on Contingent Work, charlatan, chiropractic, chiropractor, Column, Health, IBM, injury, Jason Pramas, labor, labor day, Manpower, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, medicine, NAFFE, National Alliance for Fair Employment, National Writers Union, New Liberation News Service, NLNS, North American Alliance for Fair Employment, Northeast Action, NWU, OCMEA, Organizing Committee for a Massachusetts Employees Association, Project on Contingent Work, quack, safety, science, temp, UAW, union, United Auto Workers

THE REAL FIGHT AGAINST FAKE NEWS

Written by PAUL ROSENBERG Posted October 8, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Project Censored’s top censored stories of 2018

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: cell phones, CIA, Environment, intelligence, Journalism, media, news, Project Censored, Russiagate, science

FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART II)

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 3, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Photo by ekamelev. CC0 Public Domain.

In part one (DigBoston, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Belden Electronics, charlatan, chiropractic, chiropractor, Column, Health, IBM, injury, Jason Pramas, labor, labor day, Manpower, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, medicine, quack, safety, science, temp, union

BOOK REVIEW: TWO VEGETABLES THINK BETTER THAN ONE

Written by MAX L. CHAPNICK Posted September 6, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Books

 

The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso

 

In one of Roald Dahl’s creepier short stories, “The Sound Machine,” an inventor rigs together ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: biology, Book, botany, intelligence, neurology, plants, review, science

THE FANTASY ROBOTS OF BOSTON DYNAMICS

Written by GARY ZABEL Posted March 21, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Relax—we’re a lot further away from an automaton takeover than you may think

Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: AI, Alphabet, biorobotics, Boston Dynamics, Cambridge, DARPA, funding, Google, Lobotomass, MIT, robots, science, technology

SEA LEVEL RISE IS JUST ONE OF BOSTON’S WORRIES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 24, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image via Environmental Defense Fund

As Earth approaches several catastrophic global warming “tipping points”

 

Before writing more columns examining Boston city government’s emerging plans to cope with the effects of global warming, I think a quick review of what area residents are likely to face in the coming decades is in order. Because it’s important to disabuse ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Antarctica, Apparent Horizon, Boston, budget, Climate Change, Climate Ready Boston, Column, coral, criticism, economy, flood, flooding, global warming, Greenland, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, news, ocean, Politics, science, sea level rise, technology, tipping point

THE SEAPORT FLOOD IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 17, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

THE SEAPORT FLOOD IS JUST THE BEGINNING

 

Unless Boston builds proper defenses against global warming-driven sea level rise

 

So, Boston’s Seaport District flooded early this month during a bad snowstorm in the midst of several days of arctic temperatures. And nobody could be less surprised than me. Because I’ve spent a lot of the last quarter century  ...  read more

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