By unlocking the secrets of anesthesia, Professor Emery Brown could help shed light on brain diseases, hibernation, and possibly even human consciousness: Anesthetic compounds, it turns out, are powerful neuroscience research tools.
Opinion: The pushback against the 15-minute city // The Boston Globe
Professor of the practice Carlo Ratti and Robert Muggah of the SecDev Group explore the pushback against 15-minute cities and how the concept behind creating more accessible neighborhoods could help “facilitate the meaningful and sustained in-person connections that the internet cannot.” Ratti and Muggah note that “with societies increasingly fractured and fragmented, the concept could be the solution to bridging our divides. By creating more open, integrated, and healthy neighborhoods, it is possible to restore the in-person connections that are an antidote to polarization.”
We shall long cherish the memory of her alert, original, incisive, and powerful personality; of her determination to uphold whatsoever things are lovely and of good report; and her eagerness to put down all evil, to do away with filth, and to cleanse and purify the dirty places of this too often unclean world.
—William Sedgwick, founding head of the MIT Department of Biology, of the late MIT donor Sarah Hughes, who funded critical research into Boston’s odoriferous sewage system in the early 1900s
