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...
Read MoreThe 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...
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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...
Read MoreThe Invisible Sharp-Shinned Hawk
From the newsletter Inbound (go ahead and subscribe now!). Pigeons abound in North Station; South Station doesn’t have an indoor bird in sight. WGBH investigates and finds that the reason is the BIRD-X Repeller, a small speaker that randomly plays bird of prey calls, which...
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