76003.1414: 5/15/22

5.21.2022

MIT, Harvard scientists find AI can recognize race from X-rays — and nobody knows how

The study found that an artificial intelligence program trained to read X-rays and CT scans could predict a person’s race with 90 percent accuracy.

Summer is starting earlier. Massachusetts is not prepared.

“One of the most dangerous problems we have in New England is that people don’t think of this area as a hot area,” Bianca Bowman, climate justice organizer at the environmental justice organization GreenRoots, said.

If we could only get rid of global warming and people, all our problems would be solved.

[NOTE to DHS: The "people" part was a joke. If we got rid of people…, You get it, right?]

The shark, however, has retired

‘Jaws’ child actor Jonathan Searle named police chief on Martha’s Vineyard, where movie was filmed nearly 50 years ago

When he succeeds the retiring police chief at the end of June, Searle will step into the real-life role of the fictional Martin Brody, Amity’s top cop in the movie.

5.20.2022

Reading outdoors at the (soon to be) old library

Biden forest plan stirs dispute over what counts as “old”

Groves of aspen, for example, can mature within a half century. For Douglas fir stands, it could take 100 years. Wildfire frequency also factors in: Ponderosa pine forests are adapted to withstand blazes as often as once a decade, compared to lodgepole pine stands that might burn every few hundred years.

5.19.2022

"According to [Massachusetts] Secretary of State William F. Galvin, individual Republican candidates running for statewide office have collected thousands more signatures than their Democratic opponents as part of the process required to get on the ballot. It’s a signal Galvin likens to wastewater samples that show a rise in COVID-19."

Numbers don’t lie: Even in Mass., GOP candidates are outpacing Democrats – Boston Globe 5/19/22