Higher education
MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network
Armed with a stepladder, sheets of adhesive rhinestones and googly eyes, a group of MIT professors made their way through campus Tuesday evening hunting for surveillance cameras. The eye-catching decorations do not block the cameras or interfere with their operation. That’s the point. The professors want people to notice the cameras watching them. Read more […]
“Binge Thinking” aims to provide an antidote to doomscrolling
At the Aeronaut Brewery on a recent night in July, there wasn’t an empty table to be found as people greeted each other by the bar and then settled into chairs after walking carefully by the large projector screen at the center of the room. Read more New donut shop owner hopes we’ll all be […]
HRI hands out Peter Daly Scholarship to recipients for its 20th anniversary
More than 60 people gathered in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stratton Students Center to celebrate this year’s recipients of the 20th annual Homeowner’s Rehab Inc.’s Peter Daly Scholarship. Read more Lobsters are smart, except the ones you eat The scholarship has been running since 2006 and was named after the previous executive director of […]
CRLS will see 14 athlete alumni play college sports
Last week, 14 seniors graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with commitments to play their sports at the collegiate level. Read more Chinese immersion program is renamed after parent pushback Sophia Juanes Seto will be running NCAA Division I track and field at Cornell University in the fall. At CRLS, Juanes Seto runs the […]