Boston, MA — Two widely used neonicotinoids—a class of insecticide—appear to significantly harm honey bee colonies over the winter, particularly during colder winters, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study replicated a 2012 finding from the same research group that found […]
The story of a Cambridge-raised Sandinista supporter who married a former lesbian and rose through the political ranks to become mayor of America’s largest city Bill De Blasio is a political insider who worked on campaigns of Bill and Hillary Clinton Grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is […]
EEV: All this expense for a dog? First Family returned to the elite vacation spot after skipping annual holiday before last year’s election Bo, the Obama family’s beloved dog, arrived for the holiday in a MV-22 Osprey aircraft He will enjoy an eight-day holiday with plenty of manicured grass […]
Sinovel Wind Group accused of illegally downloading software from former supplier American Superconductor guardian.co.uk, Friday 28 June 2013 05.38 EDT A worker paints wind turbines in Guangdong, China. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters China‘s largest wind-turbine company has been charged with stealing trade secrets from its American former […]
Banker Fined $100,000 in Political Scheme WASHINGTON (CN) – Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Neil M.M. Morrison was fined $100,000 for his role in a pay-to-play scheme involving secret campaign contributions to former Massachusetts Treasurer Timothy Cahill’s campaign for governor, the SEC said. Morrison also will be barred […]
Ibragim Todashev, 27, was shot dead by an FBI agent Wednesday after he reportedly turned violent during questioning He had allegedly confessed to the FBI that he had played a role in a triple slaying in the Boston area in 2011 His father says he sent his son […]
EEV: We are not talking direct threats, but word association. Take time watch the video’s that come afterwards. By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:04 EST, 2 May 2013 | UPDATED: 18:04 EST, 2 May 2013 A teenage aspiring rap artist may soon be in hot water […]
By Scott Malone, Tim McLaughlin and Ross Kerber | Reuters – 10 hrs ago A collection of fireworks found inside a backpack are seen in a handout photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) May 1, 2013. The backpack belonged to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and […]
EEV: There is no doubt extreme and conflicting reports on the Boston event. We expect it should be very easy to track where all these alleged weapons came from. In addition, police footage from the car camera’s should be able to easily validate the story. The Boston bombers were […]
Harvard University has been stripped of a string of US quiz championship titles after a cheating scandal was uncovered by organisers. Championships awarded to the Ivy League college, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2009 and 2010, and two separate titles from 2011, were revoked and handed to the […]
World-Class Screw-up at FedEx, Mom Says By KEVIN KOENINGER PLYMOUTH, Mass. (CN) – FedEx delivered 7 lbs. of marijuana to the wrong house, then told the dopers where to go to pick it up, a single mom and her young daughters claim in court. […]
Yulia Zamanskaya Jan 19, 2013 20:55 Moscow Time © Photo: en.wikipedia.org Lighting the fire during a cold winter evening a resident of Vladivostok found a rail-shaped metal detail which was pressed in one of the pieces of coal that the man used to heat his home. Mesmerized by […]
The group ‘Harvard College Munch,’ which relishes in conversations about erotic sex, has been officially recognized by the prestigious university The expected approval from the school’s student life board will entitle Munch to officially meet for on-campus meals, promote on school grounds and apply for grants from the […]
Army Poisoned People in ’50s, Class Claims By JOE HARRIS ST. LOUIS (CN) – Monsanto and others conspired with an Army experiment to secretly poison people with toxic chemicals in a giant segregated housing complex in the 1950s, a class action claims in City Court. Lead plaintiff Benjamin […]
By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter PUBLISHED:17:14 EST, 10 October 2012| UPDATED:17:15 EST, 10 October 2012 Oops: Florida Gov Rick Scott accidentally gave out phone sex number instead of the state’s meningitis hotline Florida Gov Rock Scott sent thousands of Floridians to a dirty phone sex line […]
Officials said all of those infected received spinal injections of a steroid solution sold by a Massachusetts-based facility Karen McVeigh in New York guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 October 2012 17.11 EDT Dr Robert Latham, chief of medicine at Saint Thomas, said a patient died there, bringing the number of […]
Annie Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples involving 34,000 defendants during her nine years at the lab Admitted identifying narcotics simply ‘by looking at them’ Dozens of drug defendants already back on the street because of her misconduct Dookhan lied about having a master’s degree in chemistry […]
Survey ‘magic trick’ causes attitude reversal. Zoë Corbyn 19 September 2012 People can be tricked into reversing their opinions on moral issues, even to the point of constructing good arguments to support the opposite of their original positions, researchers report today in PLoS ONE1. The researchers, led by Lars […]
Robert Kosilek was convicted of murdering his wife Cheryl in 1990 In prison, he changed his name to Michelle, sued for the state to pay for a sex change and attempting to castrate herself in custody Massachusetts judge ruled that the $20,000 surgery is the ‘only adequate treatment’ […]
By Eric W. Dolan Tuesday, September 4, 2012 17:00 EDT A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday ordered the state’s Department of Correction to provide a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder with sex-change surgery. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled that refusing to provide the […]
Contact: Patti Jacobs pjacobs12@comcast.net 617-868-0077 Schepens Eye Research Institute New hope for regenerating the human retina damaged by disease or injury Boston, MA—Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have discovered what chemical in the eye triggers the dormant capacity of certain non-neuronal cells to transform into progenitor cells, […]
Contact: Gina Digravio gina.digravio@bmc.org 617-638-8491 Boston University Boston, MA—Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found that the bacteria Oxalobacter formigenes (O. formigenes), a naturally occurring bacterium that has no known side effects, is associated with a 70 percent reduction in the risk of recurrent kidney stones. […]
PCE in drinking water linked to an increased risk of mental illness The solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) widely used in industry and to dry clean clothes is a neurotoxin known to cause mood changes, anxiety, and depression in people who work with it. To date the long-term effect of […]
(BOSTON) — Prenatal and early childhood exposure to the chemical solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) found in drinking water may be associated with long-term visual impairments, particularly in the area of color discrimination, a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers has found. The study […]
