Tag: massachusettes
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Boston Schools Food Service Program In Disarray, Review Says
from bostonglobe.com: Widespread dysfunction in the Boston school system’s food service program is leading to millions of dollars in losses each year and creating an apparent “hostile work environment” for employees, according to an external review obtained by the Globe. The review, commissioned by the School Department and completed last month, found the program had…
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Why Do Kids Kill? Latest School Murders Revive Questions
#Massachusettes killing in same town as Salem witch trials from csmonitor.com: The headlines this week have been unavoidable: •In Massachusetts, 14-year-old Philip Chism sits in jail, charged with murdering Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer and awaiting a grand jury decision about whether he should be tried as an adult. •In Nevada, a 12-year-old boy…
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Controlling Monkey Brains And Behavior With Light
Researchers reporting online on July 26 in Current Biology have for the first time shown that they can control the behavior of monkeys by using pulses of blue light to very specifically activate particular brain cells.
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#BingeAndPurge: Weight, Loss, Whooping Cough and more
HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’ Pounds Away at Obesity // TV Show ‘Girls’ Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing // Obama Says Frackers Must Reveal Chemicals Used on Public Lands…but only after Drilling is Finished // How Sniffing Rosemary Could Boost Your Brain Power // Let Food Be Your Medicine and Medicine Be Your…
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Cold Weather Linked to Witchcraft Trials
from LiveScience.com: Historical records indicate that, worldwide, witch hunts occur more often during cold periods, possibly because people look for scapegoats to blame for crop failures and general economic hardship. Fitting the pattern, scholars argue that cold weather may have spurred the infamous Salem witch trials in 1692. The theory, first laid out by the…
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America’s First UFO Sighting: When Pigs Fly
John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded journal entry in 1639 and considered America’s first UFO Sighting: “…a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted…
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Witchcraft Heights Hit Hard By Tragedy
Witchcraft Heights Elementary School has been reaching out to students and staff since the violent incident Sunday night at the Salem Heights apartment building.
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‘Salem Witch Trials’ Document Up for Auction
A document from the Salem witch trials is expected to fetch as much as $35,000 when it hits the auction block. The original court indictment of Margaret Scott, a Rowley widow in her 70s and one of the last people hanged during the 1692 hysteria in colonial Massachusetts, is part of a private collection of…
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FDA to Review Safety of Aeroshot’s Inhalable Caffeine
from ap: U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement. AeroShot went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and it’s also available in France. Consumers…
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where is the legal line drawn in animal rights activism?
from mclatchy: A federal courthouse in Boston and a ranch in California’s San Joaquin Valley present competing faces of the animal rights movement. One side is peaceful. The other, decidedly, is not. Both can feel the weight of the law and the sting of being called a terrorist.
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cupcake deemed ‘security threat,’ confiscated by tsa
video: frosting too ‘gel-like,’ posed risk from wcvb: A Peabody woman says a cupcake she tried to take on a flight with her sparked a potential security threat this week. Rebecca Hains says she was going through security at the airport in Las Vegas when a TSA agent pulled her aside and said the cupcake…
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food costs soar as thanksgiving looms, diners eat cost of inflation
from boston herald: Shoppers are feeling the pinch of higher food prices at the supermarket, and most consumers are convinced they will be shelling out even more cash for groceries next year. “Prices keep going up,” said Vladimir Nefyodov, a home health aide who shops for his elderly clients at Shaw’s in the Fenway. “My…
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11/17 pop occulture: unsurprising scandals
still shocked that organized religion & sports want to physically, spiritually & mentally abuse your children?* stop being surprised about the penn state scandal & learn about the franklin cover up* video: ‘conspiracy of silence’* 2 top officials step down amid penn state sex scandal* catholic church’s pedophile investigator jailed for kiddie porn* sex offender…
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food fest called off due to #OccupyBoston tent city
from boston herald: The sprawling Occupy Boston encampment in downtown has forced the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy to call off a food fest long planned for this weekend. The “Greenway Mobile Food Fest” set for Saturday has been canceled and won’t be held until the spring, the conservancy announced today. “Saturday’s event was to…
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9/29 pop occulture: faith, guitars & church calendars
oregon jury convicts faith-healing hickmans of manslaughter* video: man steals guitar from green bay grave; diocese detective work gets it back to dearly departed* north platte, nebraska library defends freedom to read wicca, occult books–all books* video: men from mass. church bare it all in calendar*