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Non-Pooped on Statues

April 3, 2004 Fending off annoying birds Asami Nagai / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer When Kanazawa University chemist Yukio Hirose accepted the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry at Harvard in 2003, he surprised the audience by thanking the pigeons and crows of his hometown. His...

The Cantab Lounge

By Joshua Miller Assistant Metro Editor, Boston Globe A live music and cheap beer kind of summer Thursday. It was after dark and I was standing in a packed Cambridge dive bar. Not any dive bar, mind you. It was the Cantab Lounge, an 87-year-old...

A Harvard Physicist Makes a Career at an HBCU

by Rhonda Hillbery. "In the 1960s, just as the civil rights movement stepped up its fight for equal rights and turmoil rocked the South, a young physics professor made his own mark on a rapidly changing, yet still stubbornly segregated, part of the nation. Dave...

Stata Center

...or one of my most favorite haunts in the world. In its previous avatar it was Building 20, MIT's Magic Incubator, now home to CSAIL. I have often wondered about why the Linguistics Department was housed there along with Computer Science and AI. Finally found...

Snow Monkeys in Japan

“The Japanese macaque, also known as the snow monkey, is a highly intelligent species native to Japan. It is well known for its beet-red bottom and affinity for soaking in hot springs.” In the news in NYT: Last year, a 9-year-old female Japanese macaque in...

Selvi — A Story by RKN

A beautiful story by R.K. Narayan -- an alternate ending to a celebrated life in Carnatic music. At the end of every concert, she was mobbed by autograph hunters. They would hem her in and not allow her to leave the dais. At that moment...