Christopher Reed

Hello, Geotech

Take your geographic information system (GIS) for a spin around the block. Its easy. Sit at your computer, which you have loaded with GIS...

Hold the Garlic Mustard

Garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, a European native, immigrated to the United States in the 1800s, says Kristina Stinson, “perhaps...

"Lots of Reasonable 99c Lunches"

Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently...

Of Mice and Hands

"Computer use does not cause carpal tunnel syndrome.” Moreover, “no one has proven that the disease is made worse by work on a...

Good Times at Frank's

Okay, you can strap on your credit card, go to Grill 23 in Boston, and have placed before you a 24-ounce (yes, 24 ounce) porterhouse steak ($44)...

Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments on display

At last, Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments has come up from its hiding place....

Clues on the Wing

Vladimir A. Lukhtanov saw Agrodiaetus butterflies of several species flying together, and even though they all looked much the same in most...

Happy Surprises

Success is making a bit of trouble for Gabriel Bremer and Analia Verolo. Two years ago they bought Salts, a popular bistro near Central Square...

Mad for Degas

In 1911 the little Fogg Art Museum mounted the only one-man museum exhibition to occur during his lifetime of works by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar...

Driving Birds Away

If you were a bobolink thinking about breeding, you would avoid laying your eggs within three-quarters of a mile of either side of a busy...

Fare Thee Well

Ever wonder why there are so few superlative Chinese restaurants in this country? Why all we expect is dependable, cheap food in nondescript...

Art of the Hunt

A Persian prince of antiquity possessed hunting equipment of often inescapable effectiveness—a trained cheetah. See the manuscript painting...