by Linda McInerney | Oct 1, 2014 | The Public Humanist
Lindel Hart and Linda McInerney have been collaborating for two years on an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. In the first year, they researched, imagined, and Lindel wrote. They spent endless hours on Linda’s couch dreaming out how the show might...
by Caleb Rounds | Oct 1, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me
On my way home from work today I passed through the center of Northampton. For once I didn’t notice the reading on the Silverscape sign: -90. I’m not sure if it’s Fahrenheit or Celsius. I’m hoping Fahrenheit because that’s a lot warmer...
by Amanda Drane | Oct 1, 2014 | Wellness
One of my earliest memories is of visiting my Aunt Karen in the hospital shortly before we lost her to breast cancer. I was too little to remember much, but I remember thinking that in her mid-30s my aunt was too young to die—dying was for old people. Earlier...
by Greg Beato | Oct 1, 2014 | Wellness
Health care costs in the U.S. have been rising so steadily for so long that containment barely seems possible. Even optimists don’t dream of cutting the price tag. As its official name—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—suggests,...
by Advocate readers | Oct 1, 2014 | News
Take a Number Thanks for Tom Vannah’s article about how tough it was to understand a math textbook statement about the relationship between an independent change and a dependent variable change (“A Textbook Case of Math Disability,” Sept. 25)....