Jennette Barnes
In a year when the November ballot has a long list of ballot questions, in Barnstable County voters face an additional one.Question A asks voters to create a 19-member commission that will solicit public opinion of how county government operates and suggest changes.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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A review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists. -
In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands of people raced west in pursuit of sudden wealth, reinvention, and power. -
Tautog or blackfish are native to the Western Atlantic from Nova Scotia down to South Carolina. They can be tricky to catch with a hook and line, because they like to live in rocky areas or old ship wrecks. -
The oldest commercial shellfish hatchery on the East Coast is under new ownership as of this past summer. Aquacultural Research Corporation in Dennis sells more than one hundred million seed shellfish each year. -
Popular chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT are powered by models trained on enormous amounts of information, which means spending billions on vast data centers that take more power and water than entire cities. Instead, roboticists like Matthias Scheutz are thinking small. They’re designing AI systems compact enough to fit on a single computer chip.
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Liz LernerA review of the week's local headlines with our region's leading jouralists. -
In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutter’s Mill in California, triggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history, as hundreds of thousands of people raced west in pursuit of sudden wealth, reinvention, and power. -
Did Freud understand something important about psychological suffering that modern psychiatry neglects? -
Courtesy Marine Renewable Energy CollaborativeResearchers are exploring ways to tap into energy from tides, waves, and currents.
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Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesEvery other decade over the past hundred years has produced at least one midterm that made a big difference in Congress and in national politics more broadly. -
Abdulnasser Alseddik/APTaiz, a city in southwestern Yemen, faces a severe water crisis as Houthi rebels backed by Iran tighten their encirclement. The city has struggled with water issues for over a decade, but the situation has worsened in recent weeks.
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Intense rainfall slammed the Four Corners region late this week. As rivers flooded, towns declared evacuations and emergencies and made rescues. -
In this edition of Spacing Out, the team from Short Wave shares the latest developments in space science, including the theory on why the universe is made of matter
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Cracking down on immigration has been the centerpiece of the Trump administration, but the government has limited the public's access to the numbers. A new study gives us a clearer picture.
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