Posts by year – 2013 -> 2017

CRISPR-Cas9 harnessed for genome editing January, 2013 — Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Massachusetts After almost two decades of development this powerful system of gene editing has beco… Continue reading CRSPR Gene Editing Tools Reach Maturity

February 2013

not started.

As the President of the Board of Trustees of the Hudson Area Library, I have been very involved over the past year with the design of a new library to be built in the Armory (State and Fifth Sts.) here in Hudson. This has lead me to be very intereste… Continue reading Visiting Libraries in the West – California and Arizona – 2/2013

Snowden’s leak of the NSA materials revealed a massive spying operation on the American people by their own government. On a personal note, almost within moments of the release of these documents, competitors to UTM’s encrypted communications app app… Continue reading Edward Snowden leaks NSA documents

June 2013 and on….

Until we moved to Hudson we never had a garage. Always parked on the street. 114 Warren included a red carriage barn on the alley. After living here for four years it finally came to us that an electric door opener would be great. This will be especi… Continue reading Electric Garage Door – 9/17/2013

Visited with Bill and Nancy at their house in Becket. Took a hike.

West 81st. St. NYC – across from Natural History Museum

Drawing inspiration from the contemporary realities of his fast-changing country, Chinese artist Xu Bing spent two years creating his newest work, Phoenix. The installation featured two monumental birds fabricated entirely from materials harvested fr… Continue reading Xu Bing’s Phoenix at St. John the Divine Cathedral NYC – 6/30/2014

Here are some measurement and other tools from my days as a machinist. For a while I painted a red mark on them to make it easier to retrieve them from other machinists who had borrowed them.

A group show mounted by Karen’s local critique group.

We participated in this regualr event for quite a while. Our friend Dave Drake and his crowd were perpetual winners.

I have been observing ugly buildings for years.

A more than decade long project. This is a sampling of the connections around Boston and NYC.

In my second Independent Studies Program session, over the Winter of 1965, I worked on a paper that came to be titled, “The Rise to Power of Stalin and Khrushchev: the role of the party”.