RePOOPulating Your Gut
It may sound like a new gag item on the shelves at Spencer Gifts, but rePOOPulate is no joke. It is the product of extensive medical research, developed by an […]
Events:
The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
3D Organ Printing: Life in a Lab
When I tell friends that I think their grandchildren might live for hundreds of years, they usually think I’m kidding around. While I spend a fair amount of my life […]
Reinstating Good Samaritan: A Step in the Right Direction
In July 2015, Rhode Island’s Good Samaritan Law, which granted individuals who alerted emergency services to someone overdosing on drugs immunity from prosecution, was allowed to sunset. Lawmakers in the […]
No Guns Under the Tree
While visions of sugar plums dance in our heads, our brains are not fully focused. As a result, people fall prey to an astonishing variety of safety and health hazards […]
A 3D World Illuminates
Back in a former life, I was a scientist — a biologist, technically — and somehow I managed to excel in the intricacies of genetic mapping, tracing the effects of […]
Rub of the Green: How You Can Help Mother Nature … or Not
Saving Planet Earth is usually regarded as a rather large task, embraced by only superheroes or delusional politicians. You can, as a normal citizen, actually play a small part in […]
New England’s 501st: Bad Guys Who Do Good
When you were a kid, chances are you looked up to the good guys: Luke Skywalker, Superman, that guy from those wizard movies, etc. But have you ever thought about […]
Stellar Adventures
My journey through the cosmos – by way of the Frosty Drew Observatory – began this past summer. I had attempted to go one Friday night in June. Unfortunately I […]
How to Take Care of You This Season
The holidays are a distinctly bipolar time of year. While they may bring twinkling lights, laughter and mistletoe to some, the rest of the population anticipates the first strains of […]
Never Stop Learning, Rhode Island!
Students of the world, unite! You don’t need to matriculate to scoot up behind a desk and start learning or help those you love learn something new. Does someone you […]