Morning Updates: Teenage murder charges, Rush Limbaugh is back, and charity as moneyball
Good morning, Boston. Here’s what you need to know for the day ahead, including Rush Limbaugh’s return to the airwaves, cellphone use in schools, and when dinosaurs roamed Western Massachusetts.
Murder charges for two Boston teenagers: “Seated beside her husband in the back of a Dorchester courtroom, Laura Dos Santos wept as a prosecutor on Monday described how two teenagers ‘trapped’ her 16-year-old son before shooting him to death last week. … Both boys, who remained in a room away from public view, pleaded not guilty to the slaying of Jonathan Dos Santos. The two are being tried as adults. Their mothers had turned them in to police on Saturday, decisions that city officials and community leaders praised as courageous.’’ (The Boston Globe)
When dinosaurs roamed Western Mass.: “The Connecticut River Valley, it turns out, has a rich history of dinosaur discovery and research dating back more than a century. Its claim to fame isn’t big body skeletons, but rather prints from the Jurassic-era of 200 million to 145 million years ago. … Every year, [shop owner Kornell] Nash cuts footprints out of the quarry—which is about the size of three tennis courts—and sells them in the shop for between $50 and $1,000.’’ (Boston.com)
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Rush Limbaugh was not in limbo for long: “In late May, it appeared Limbaugh may disappear from the dial after his company, Premiere Networks, failed to reach an agreement with host station WRKO-AM 680 to continue broadcasting the show. But starting on June 29, Premiere said, Limbaugh will be broadcasted on WKOX-AM 1430, along with a slate of other programming directed at a conservative demographic.’’ (The Boston Globe)
#Cellphones #school #education #teens: “At Melrose High School, for example, science students use a physics app to collect acceleration data and measure sound intensity, and English students discuss literature on their smartphones. In Burlington, high school Spanish students practice language skills on their iPads by recording their speech and playing it back. … Some schools are leveraging students’ own smartphones — the so-called BYOD (bring your own device) approach. Others with the means to do so, such as the Burlington school system, have taken the ‘one-to-one’ approach and purchased iPads for all students in grades one through 12.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Making charity into Moneyball: “[E]ffective altruism [is] a burgeoning movement that has been called ‘generosity for nerds.’ Effective altruism seeks to maximize the good from one’s charitable donations and even from one’s career. It is munificence matched with math, or, as [a proponent] once described it to me memorably, ‘injecting science into the sentimental issue of doing good in the world.’’’ (The Atlantic)
Red Sox lose 4-2, their 7th straight loss: “This is the worst Red Sox team in a generation, not because of a poor collection of talent, but because of the uneven way that talent meshes. It is the most dysfunctional Red Sox team in most of our lifetimes because it isn’t remotely clear what its identity should be.’’ (Boston.com)
The Goodbye: The Red Sox’s disastrous week
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