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Published June 11, 2021 at 1:38 PM EDT Listen • 49:25 / This week: A week after a cyber attack, the Steamship Authority has lashed together some provisional fixes; and a sexual assault is reported on a ferry. Barnstable will be looking for a new School Superintendent. And the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce gets drawn into the machine gun range controversy. We have those stories and more, as CAI News Director Steve Junker speaks with some of the region’s leading journalists. This week's guests include CAI's Jennette Barnes and Sam Houghton; Brian Dowd of the Mart...

This week: A week after a cyber attack, the Steamship Authority has lashed together some provisional fixes; and a sexual assault is reported on a ferry. Barnstable will be looking for a new School Superintendent. And the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce gets drawn into the machine gun range controversy.

1 Governance professor Beth Simone Noveck, who formerly served as the first White House deputy chief technology officer, believes that “public entrepreneurship” can counter the failures that have dominated public policy design in the United States since the 1960s. Her new book, Solving Public Problems, revisits the four stages of policy design—identifying problems, identifying solutions, designing for implementation, and evaluation and evolution—while identifying 20 crucial decisions that prioritize “human-centered public policies.” Experts often expend much effort on program des...

Nanotechnology Now Our NanoNews Digest Sponsors Home > Press > With a zap of light, system switches objects' colors and patterns: "Programmable matter" technique could enable product designers to churn out prototypes with ease A new system uses UV light projected onto objects coated with light-activated dye to alter the reflective properties of the dye, creating images in minutes. CREDIT Image courtesy of Michael Wessley, Stefanie Mueller, et al Abstract: When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection? Gave your shoes a colorful facelift? With a zap of li...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A new system uses UV light projected onto objects coated with light-activated dye to alter the reflective properties of the dye, creating images in minutes. view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Michael Wessley, Stefanie Mueller, et al When was the last time you repainted your car? Redesigned your coffee mug collection? Gave your shoes a colorful facelift? You likely answered: never, never, and never. You might consider these arduous tasks not worth the effort. But a new color-shifting "programmable matter" system could change that with a zap of light. MIT researchers ...