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Whether it's self-navigating robotic cars, hacking Charlie, or cracking the game of blackjack to win millions from Vegas casinos, the kids at MIT tend not to leave any stone unturned, and last week continued the trend. A team of MIT engineers announced the development of a tiny batteries partially assembled by viruses. The batteries, checking in at a scant 4 micrometers wide (compared to the 17-181 micrometer width of human hair), have similar performance characteristics to standard lithium-ion batteries. The MIT team hopes eventually to produce wholly virus-assembled batteries that can be implanted into living tissue for use in medical devices. No doubt the next step will be to use these virus-batteries in a device to make the female population of campus resemble fictional MIT student Kate Bosworth. The study will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with considerably fewer references to 2008 movies based on card-counting. more ›

--Wo ist Whitey? The Feds are going on the German equivalent of "America's Most Wanted" to ask for help looking for Whitey Bulger. If you are an old white guy planning a leisurely European tour or happen to know an old white guy considering such a trip, watch out for overeager foreign policemen, even if you wear a Yankees cap. [Boston Globe] more ›

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Yesterday before the Patriots vs. Dolphins game in Foxboro, a fan "jumped from a 17-foot high pedestrian walkway heading towards the stores at Patriot Place," the Globe reports. more ›

The T announced that it is going to order 10 more of the infamous Breda cars for the Green Line. We wondered why the T would order more cars that don't work. The T's problems with Italian company AnsaldoBreda go waaay back: The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority signed a $222 million contract in 1995 with an Italian company now known as AnsaldoBreda to provide the trains. The company was supposed to deliver 100 "Breda" cars,... more ›

It's official - Brookline will purge trans fats, which increase bad cholesterol, from all foods made within its restaurants and schools. Per the ban, restaurants must "stop using trans fats for frying by Nov. 30, 2008, and to end their use in baked goods by April 30, 2009." more ›

Nothing really seems to change on the T because most of the people riding it are ordinary schlubs like us. We "write to the top," and our letters escape into the void of transportation bureaucracy. more ›

Harvard sends lots of people to lots of important places. Recently we’ve been watching John Roberts on his path to the Supreme Court (and how Romney may eye that prize). But there's a bigger Harvard-related human interest item catching the attention of the “House”-watching public. Dr. David Foster left his relationship with Harvard Medical School, after being trained and then practiced in the system at Beth Israel, to go to Hollywood. From Harvard to Hollywood? We seem to remember this being the reverse trajectory. Don't get us started on Harvard Man. more ›

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