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On this day in 1846, a crowd gathered in the operating theater at Massachusetts General Hospital. A Boston printer with a tumor on his jaw lay on the table. Curious and skeptical physicians and medical students waited impatiently. Finally, Boston dentist William Morton entered the room carrying a glass inhaler with an ether-soaked sponge. He used ( Read more... )

The largest biotechnology and life sciences convention in history is currently underway in Boston. The BIO International Conference has gathered over 20,000 people from all over the world and brought them to Boston, currently one of the centers of biotechnology ( Read more... )

On this day in 1873, Melvil Dewey, a student at Amherst College in Amherst Massachusetts, proposed an novel decimal-based system for organizing and cataloguing Amherst's library. The faculty was so impressed by his presentation he was taken on as Amherst's assistant librarian. Dewey worked from 1874 to 1877 impementing his method and making ( Read more... )

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Now that I have sufficiently recovered from New Years, I can update my neglected LiveJournal. I definitely had entirely too much homemade plum mead that one of the fabulously geeky people at the party brought (Don't worry I made the obligatory D&D jokes). I was surprised and really liked mead, and I found myself wondering why drinking mead is so ( Read more... )

Turnout in the Massachusetts General Election has been very high considering every poll in the last two weeks has put gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick at least 20 points ahead of his rival Kerry Healey. The AP is giving the election to Patrick claiming that much of his support came from independents and moderates, which ate away from Healey ( Read more... )