H Boston captured this tyrannosaur at the Museum of Science.

Copyright H Boston. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Dear Dog Lady,

I have an acquaintance I see from time to time. Whenever we bump into one another, she launches right into the latest medical trials of Louie. For the longest time, I had no clue who Louie was. I thought he was her father or uncle because she kept talking of “elderly Louie’s’ liver problems.” Finally, when I ran into her a few weeks ago, she told me about Louie’s doctor finding a nasal passage tumor and an age-related heart murmur. She finally referred to Louie’s doctor as a “vet,” so I figured out Louie is her dog. Why must people talk about their dogs like people?

Harley

By now if you haven’t heard that the MBTA has a huge operating deficit and is proposing steep fare increases and service cutbacks that still won’t solve the problem in the long term, then stop reading and go back to the TV. Most of the coverage of this mess has concentrated on the impacts on T riders. Very little has been said about what it might do to cities like Cambridge.

Electronics Weekly reports researchers at MIT have managed to stuff an electrode into a moth that can be used to control the moth's behavior:

"This is a major advance," says insect neurobiologist Roy Ritzmann at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. DARPA hopes this kind of control will one day allow intelligence agencies to use insects to carry surveillance equipment and spy on unsuspecting enemies.

The article does not say if they are also experimenting with ill tempered sea bass.

Via BostInnovation.

For the last two weeks, I have been haunted by a sentence of six words. A guide at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C spoke them unwittingly.

The person reporting these words, in an essay published in The New Yorker, is the writer Donald Hall. A former poet laureate, he is one of America’s most distinguished literary figures.

I have felt a kind of kinship with him ever since discovering, after the fact, that we were classmates in college. Not knowing him in those days may be counted as yet another of my young manhood’s failed opportunities.

I’ll take some responsibility for this. Earlier today, our office’s police scanner started crackling about a man walking down Mass. Ave. threatening to shoot police.

Well apparently this was not the nightmare scenario it sounded like. Police did get a …

A little after 2 p.m. on Friday someone reported overhearing a man with a thick accent threatening to shoot police officers as he walked down Mass. Ave. in Central Square, according to police spokesman Dan Riviello.

The witness did not report seeing a weapon. Police searched the area but were unable to find any suspects, Riviello said.

Efficiency has traditionally been code for layoffs, but at a Central Square planning session last Wednesday I heard a new proposed definition  for the word.

Rather than using the politically charged word density to talk about zoning that allows for …

While the city of Cambridge’s hunt for a mayor continues, friends of Nelson Albandoz will always fondly remember him as their ‘mayor.’

Albandoz, a longtime Cambridge resident died of cancer Jan. 9 in his home. He was 69.

“He was kind of like the mayor; everybody knew him,” Claudia Murrow said.

The sold out concert to support the Silver Maple Forest managed to raise over $6,000. Hundreds came out to show their support for the forest that lies between Cambridge, Belmont and Arlington.

GateHouse Media announced this week that it will locate one of its two news production centers in Framingham at the MetroWest Daily News. The move will bring more than 70 jobs to Framingham, attracting talent from across the country as the company produces its smaller newspapers (under 5,000 circulation and non-dailies) in one location starting this fall.

In the midst of what was shaping up to be their most successful season in a half-decade, the CRLS boys’ hockey team was dealt a devastating and shocking piece of news last week, when they were informed by CRLS Athletic Director Maryann Cappello that they would need to forfeit four of their previous victories due to a rules violation.

Dear Dog Lady,

I have an acquaintance I see from time to time. Whenever we bump into one another, she launches right into the latest medical trials of Louie. For the longest time, I had no clue who Louie was. I thought he was her father or uncle because she kept talking of “elderly Louie’s’ liver problems.” Finally, when I ran into her a few weeks ago, she told me about Louie’s doctor finding a nasal passage tumor and an age-related heart murmur. She finally referred to Louie’s doctor as a “vet,” so I figured out Louie is her dog. Why must people talk about their dogs like people?

Harley

Single this Valentine’s Day? All alone on the day dedicated for lovers? Sav-Mor Discount Liquors has a solution for you:

Wicked Local Cambridge’s new editor Scott Wachtler snapped this sign on the Monsignor O’Brien Highway – capturing the anti-Valentine’s sentiments …

Senator Will Brownsberger announces that up to four part-time unpaid internships in his State House office will be available for the summer of 2012.  Internships are open to college students and to high school students who will have completed their sophomore year.  Each internship will require a commitment of 10-12 hours a week.

Jason Mihalko tweets:

I have said good morning and smiled at 12 people today. All have looked away. We can be so unfriendly in Cambridge.

Some tweets in response (may take a second or two to come up):

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Hey, Cambridge! You STILL have no mayor! Anyone get the “Muppet Babies” reference? (I hope so) I’ve vowed to make a new cartoon about this story every week until we have a mayor! This is cartoon #5 … so far!…

Ever wondered why your favorite dish from your favorite restaurant doesn’t quite taste the same when you prepare it at home?

Ask Cambridge chef Seth Diamond.

At 4:54 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued the following measles alert:

Individuals attending the Super Bowl Village activities (a three-block outdoor festival in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana) on Friday, February 3, 2012, may have been exposed to a confirmed case of measles.

For a while now you’ve gotten to know me as the reporter for  Wicked Local Cambridge. As of yesterday, I am officially the new editor of the Cambridge Chronicle and Wicked Local Cambridge.

I’m looking forward to working in this …