Chris Amico

A study sheds new light on the full spectrum of chemicals that can leak into homes, finding 21 different chemicals designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as hazardous air pollutants. More →

Charley Cummings wants to build the "Patagonia of banking." Walden Mutual would be a mutual bank and use its depositors’ funds to offer loans to local agricultural entrepreneurs in New England and New York. More →

Parenting, which is made up of moment after moment of guiding and raising our children is also, essentially, made up of moment after moment of letting go. More →

Move over, Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker, and make room for the next generation More →

The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly. More →

New research finds one in five of the deaths due to Covid-19 in low-income countries between December 2020 and 2021 could have been prevented if the WHO’s global vaccine targets were met. More →

The justice lays the groundwork for a direct blow to the right against self-incrimination. More →

Thirteen states have trigger laws that would immediately, or almost immediately, ban abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. More →

Marvel’s movies usually lack memorable monsters, but this one is different — and scarier than Thanos More →

The vaccination campaign for children means shifting the response to covid-19 from a wartime effort to a routine part of primary care. More →

The lessons of the Soviet collapse. More →

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The war on rooming houses and SROs was a mistake More →

To show Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election and prevent the transition of power to Joe Biden. More →

I won’t call SQLite’s current moment a comeback, because the most used database engine in the world doesn’t have anything to come back from. I’m going with “renaissance”, because despite its already mass adoption, there has been something of a rebirth... More →

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Victory in the war would not end the conflict with Russia. More →

Colin Trevorrow on getting the original Jurassic Park actors back together and about that time his Star Wars IX script leaked online. More →

Massachusetts courts need a tech upgrade, but one that puts transparency first. More →

A perennial disappointment for parents and albatross for city leaders, Boston Public Schools is snowballing into a political emergency for Mayor Michelle Wu, presenting a pivotal moment in her young tenure. More →

Get cosmic brownies, lemon cakes, and glitter croissants via The Baking Notification Project. More →