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baghaii:
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I am not sure if you are limited to public transportation or not.
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Museum>
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<http://www.larzanderson.org/Topics/Topic.cfm?TopicName=Home&CFID=536300&CFTOKEN=51791476>
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<http://www.hammondcastle.org/common/index.php?com=HAMM&div=AA&nav=AA&page=A91>
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Wireless_Station_Site>
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The BU Photonics Center has some interesting sculptures that involve
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light. There is a really cool sculpture on the 7th floor. There is the
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thing by the elevator. I forget what it is supposed to do. Understand
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commands? I don't remember what it did or if it ever quite worked.
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Not relevant but I have always wanted to go.
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<http://www.museumofbadart.org/>
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rmadams:
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Wow! Too cool! I loved _loved_ living in Boston/Cambridge. There are
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lots of great geek things to do and see in Boston. Here are a few of my
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favorites:
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1\. See the amazing hacks in the "Nightwork" exhibit at the MIT Museum-
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geeks at MIT have been performing amazing hacks for _decades_.
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Besides, the MIT museum is just plain cool. See it at:
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<http://web.mit.edu/museum/> It is cool, and kind of offbeat, and a lot
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of fun.
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2\. You can also check out the MIT campus, which is right nearby- it is
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a lot of fun to walk around there, and see the Media Lab, the AI Lab,
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etc. etc. Plus, if your timing is good, you can check out such sights as
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the famous "Infinite Corridor," etc. in the buildings. You might even
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run into folks like Marvin Minsky hanging around. If you read Levy's
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"Hackers"
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(http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Levy/dp/0141000511)
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before you go, you will get some of the history and local color.
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3\. While you are there in Cambridge, have lunch/dinner at the amazing
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"Miracle of Science" bar/grill. All of their tables are laboratory
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soapstone, and the menus is chalked up on a chalkboard in "periodic
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table" form. Very amusing. They don't serve their drinks in laboratory
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glassware, but the food good and the place is fun. You can overhear some
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very interesting tech/science conversations there.
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(http://www.miracleofscience.us/)
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4\. After lunch/dinner, grab drinks (and maybe catch some music/dancing)
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at the Enormous Room, one T stop up in Central Square:
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<http://www.enormous.tv/ENORMOUS_2004/main1.html>
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5\. Across the River (almost) you can visit the Boston Museum of
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Science, which has a lot of really fun stuff, but don't miss the
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electricity show, using some of the original "atom smashers" giant Van
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de Graaff generators. Very, very cool. And loud. Also check out the
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scale model of the solar system. To get to Pluto, you need to take the T
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(Green Line) all the way out to the end of the line in Riverside...
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(http://www.mos.org/)
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6\. Check out Willoughby and Baltic at their new digs in Union Square:
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<http://willoughbybaltic.ning.com/>. They might have some fun
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hacker-type stuff going on while you are there. Totally cool tech/arts
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collective.
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Sheesh. I could go on forever. Hope this gives you a start- contact me
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if you want more of the same!
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Everyone's suggestions are great! I completely forgot about the atrium
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at the Broad (pronounced to rhyme with "road" in case you have to ask
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around to find it.) I spend so much time that there that I forgot about
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the displays in the atrium. It is really neat. If you are down that
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road, you can walk through the atrium at Draper Labs, where a bunch of
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the hardware they designed for the lunar landings is displayed. It is
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actually very cool. <http://www.draper.com/Apollo/apollo_at_draper.html>
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If you take the Red Line "T" the rest of the way up to Harvard Square,
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you can check out my personal favorite comic book store, "Million Year
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Picnic" (http://themillionyearpicnic.com/) My brother ran into Ben
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Affleck there- apparently it is his favorite comic book store, too. As
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for bookstores, check out the Harvard Coop, right around the corner
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there- they have a pretty remarkable selection of stuff academic and
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otherwise.
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Okay- I promised that I would not go on and on- I am making myself
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homesick!
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mml:
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These are slightly adjacent to the topic directly at hand (already well
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covered)
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If you are in to bookstores. (I was so excited when I found out about
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Reiter's here in DC). - MIT Press book store is cool - Schoenhof's, the
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most amazing foreign language store anywhere, with tons of useful stuff
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for learners. <http://www.schoenhofs.com/>
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I enjoyed The Computer Museum, but it's gone now. I hear the Museum of
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Science is good, though.
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Um, if bikes appeal at all, Broadway Bicycle School is cool and has a
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nice DIY angle. <http://www.broadwaybicycleschool.com/>
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curiouslee:
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Adding to all the great suggestions (I'm at the Media Lab this coming
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Tue-Thu)...
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Not far from MIT Press are:
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- The DNAtrium\*
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<http://www.broadinstitute.org/outreach/dnatrium/dnatrium> This is a
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lobby museum on genome mapping with huge curved interactive video walls.
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- Stata Center\*
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata_Center> Amazing Frank Gehry building
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if you're into crazy architecture. There's an elevated central
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courtyard. During day hours, you should be able to get inside.
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- The Media Lab\*
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab> Access to the lab spaces is
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controlled, but you can walk the upper atrium where there is the List
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Visual Arts Center <http://listart.mit.edu/> and the lower atrium where
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you can press your nose up against the Lifelong Kindergarten Lab or even
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step inside if you are nice to one of the lab staff that might be
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inside. The Media Lab is also nearing completion of a new expansion out
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back <http://www.media.mit.edu/about/building>
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I'd offer up a peek into the offices of One Laptop per Child (and
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Nicholas Negroponte's office), but I know they are swamped this weekend
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with visiting students.
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dcmk1mr2:
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While in Harvard Sq, check out the sign in one of the corner windows for
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the law firm DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE. They're the lawyers for NPR's Car
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Talk.
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2024-06-13 01:48:44 +00:00
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