HEET [Home Energy Efficiency Team http://www.heetma.com ], a Cambridge, MA nonprofit which organizes public weatherization parties and barnraisings, is crowd funding a natural gas leak monitoring project in Cambridge and Somerville. Boston … [Read more...]
BU Wins the Frozen Four!
Yeah yeah, it ain't politics. Down two with a minute left and their goalie pulled, BU managed to score twice to force overtime. Colby Cohen scored the game winner in OT, and BU has won their fifth national championship. … [Read more...]
Duct Tape for Peace
Hey all you Southie residents all you need is duct tape! http://www.boston.com/news/loc... It's the very same stuff you can use to protect your family from evil Al-Qaeda terrorists. http://www.ajc.com/metro/conte... … [Read more...]
BU scary-virus lab facing lengthy review process
In November, when we last checked in on Boston University's peculiar plan to place a laboratory to study the world's most dangerous pathogens in Boston's highly-congested South End, an independent panel of the National Research Council had … [Read more...]
Federal review of BU’s scary-virus biolab was hopelessly inadequate
I've long thought that locating a research facility designed to study the world's most dangerous pathogens (Ebola, anthrax, dengue fever, etc.) in the densely-populated South End was a lousy idea. I always thought it smacked of … [Read more...]
BU’s scary-virus biolab suffers a setback
Waaaaay back when this blog was only about a month old, I wrote up a couple of posts based on stories about Boston University's plans to build a "Biosafety Level 4" research facility - in which the most dangerous pathogens such as Ebola, … [Read more...]