Morning Updates: Is that Joe Biden coming up in Hillary’s rear-view mirror?
Good morning, Boston. Joe Biden considers getting into the presidential race, women suffer from the scourge of “RBF,’’ bad people destroyed our favorite hitchhiking robot, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
Just Biden his time: “Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign, which would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton, several people who have spoken to Mr. Biden or his closest advisers say.’’ (The New York Times)
Skynet will remember this: “The hitchhiking robot was on a mission to see the United States, hoping to make it from the east coast to San Francisco—but someone in Philadelphia cut its ‘life’ short, according to the robot’s website. HitchBOT, built in 2013 by two Canadian professors, survived off human interactions, being picked up and passed on from one person to another. It ‘died’ when it was vandalized by humans overnight in Philadelphia.’’ (Boston.com)
The cast of the new Ghostbusters visits Tufts Medical Center:
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The scourge of “RBF’’: “My mouth curled slightly downward, my brows were furrowed, my lips were a little pursed. My eyes aimed forward in a deadpan stare. I looked simultaneously bored, mad and skeptical. I was basically saying to the newscaster: Die. In that moment, I joined the ranks of a tribe of women who suffer from the scourge known as ‘resting bitch face’ or, increasingly, just RBF. … It matters at all ages because, as science has long proved, humans make judgments based on facial cues. Studies have found that people are less likely to find friendly looking faces guilty of crimes; people who look ‘happy’ are generally deemed more trustworthy, too.’’ (The New York Times)
Stories from the bell men of the Omni Parker Hotel: “I met Hugh Hefner when his daughter graduated from Brandeis. I was standing out front and he brought his entourage of Cadillacs and limousines. All these bunnies were coming out of the cars and everything. It was like something I’d seen out of a movie.’’ (Boston.com)
The Goodbye: When the Omni Parker Hotel was built.
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