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Today, a flagpole that was once on the Northfield Inn’s roof is the only physical reminder that’s left to mark where the building stood off Holton Street. The Northfield Golf Club occupies the land that was once home to the 125-bedroom hotel, but its...
Columnist and investigative reporter Dorothy Kilgallen covered numerous big stories from the 1940s through the 1960s. But her death by overdose in 1965 while investigating the John F. Kennedy assassination remains a subject of controversy.
More perhaps than any other single book, Jack Kerouac's novel On
Philip Agre earned his PhD in 1989 in computer science, but his greatest impact came when he left the technical side of the field and helped create the field of social informatics, or the study of how technology and humanity interact. Then he disappeared, leaving behind a legacy of work that was eerily prescient in predicting how technology would impact society.
Children today live in a world chock-full of hidden agendas, from direct misinformation to subliminal indoctrination. Whether it’s TV commercials telling kids they ought to be bribed into eating vegetables, or popular video game companies trying to drag children into their own corporate lawsuits, there have definitely been easier times to be a parent. Without much in the way of critical thinking skills, kids make easy prey for any company, politician, or even a children’s book author with a narrative to push. We know to be wary of corporations and politicians, but we’d really like to ...