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Oliver and Nick Komar grew up in Newton Highlands, and their lives today revolve around birds. The twin brothers still remember their first day of birding with their father along the Charles River in the Oak Hill area when they were 7 years old. They saw a rose-breasted grosbeak and a Baltimore oriole. “When I got those beautiful birds in focus in my binoculars, I was hooked,” said Nick. From then on, they biked around Newton every day before and after school looking for birds. Oliver and N...

Indiana Jones fans might find it hard to imagine anyone other than John Rhys-Davies playing Sallah. But before Rhys-Davies was cast, the role almost went to Danny DeVito.

Joan Micklin Silver, who died on Dec. 31 at age 85, proved that for American Jewish women, being a film director means facing challenges of assimilation not unlike those confronted by immigrant ancestors generations ago. Like the “Bintel Brief” Yiddish advice column in The Forverts, “Yekl,” like “Hester Street,” seethed with passions of Russian Jews trying to adapt to a new world. The low-budget informality and authenticity of “Hester Street,” much of it performed in Yiddish, wa...

Watts next for batteries? Itll be more of the same, not longer life, because physics and chemistry are hard Lithium-ion had a lucky break early on. Successors will need billions of dollars to catch up – if they dont flame out first Robbie Harb Wed 30 Dec 2020 // 16:00 UTC Share Copy Feature "There are liars, damned liars, and battery guys" – or some variation thereof – is an aphorism commonly attributed to US electro-whizz Thomas Edison. Edisons anecdotal frustrati...

ORMOND BEACH — Starting next week, fans of the Bonefish Grill restaurant in Ormond Beach will need to travel a bit farther to indulge that craving. The beachside restaurant at 814 S. Atlantic Ave., in the Harvard Square shopping plaza, will be closing its doors for the final time Sunday, according to its parent company, Tampa-based Bloomin’ Brands, Inc. The Bonefish Grill location that opened in 2019 at the Volusia Mall will remain open, said Elizabeth Watts, Bloomin’ Brands spokeswoman....

Courtesy of Solid Power Solid Powers 22-layer, 20Ah all solid-state lithium metal cell compared to the companys first-generation 10-layer, 2Ah cell. Doug Campbell is on a mission to harden the hearts of electric cars.  The co-founder and CEO of Solid Power has spent the last eight years developing a new kind of battery for carmakers. If it works, the Louisville, Colorado-based company could help overcome two major roadblocks to electric cars. According to a recent survey, U.S. consumers worry ...