Eric Bender
banner
ebender00.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Eric Bender
@ebender00.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Retired science writer. Follow the climate crisis and research on type 1 diabetes, particularly cell therapies that seem the best bets for a cure.

Enjoy kayaking […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@ebender00, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Transforming complex research into compelling stories

New oral communication studio at MIT supports professional development in STEM.

"Practice your oral presentation in front of two **simulated** audiences... Receive instant personalized feedback on 9 […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What will the latest study of Boston Harbor ferry service find for Everett and especially Chelsea?

MassDOT and MBTA Are Studying Expanded Ferry Service

Possible new ferry route destinations include other coastal cities and towns like Gloucester, Salem […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Plagued by earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, fires and floods, Japan offers deep lessons on how to proactively prepare for and recover from such disasters.

The remarkable Miho Mazereeuw, head of MIT's Urban Risk Lab, just published Design Before Disaster […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
October 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Plagued by earthquakes, fires, floods and tsunamis, Japan offers deep lessons on how to proactively prepare for and recover from such disasters.

Last month Miho Mazereeuw, head of MIT's Urban Risk Lab, published Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A fishing schooner from the Venetian lagoon, at Venice's naval history museum.

Other boats also seen this week: https://ericbender.co/safe-harbor/

#venice #boat #history #museum
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#nytimes again doesn't consider millions marching as top news.

#nokings
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I blog about Boston Harbor, climate resilience and related matters at https://ericbender.co/safe-harbor/.

Just vanity-published a printed scrapbook filled with this stuff […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
October 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
October 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

On October 18, millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.

https://www.nokings.org/

#nokings
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Luna, the first diesel/electric tugboat in Boston Harbor, celebrates her 95th birthday with a major overhaul.

#boston #harbor #maritime #history
September 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Here's another of Sophie Poe's beautifully written and photographed snapshots of museums I don't expect to visit...

in this case the House Museum of Kamol Khujandi in Tajikistan...

which includes a thoughtful microessay on the concept of home […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
September 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
September 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
In the winter of 1844 the merchants of Boston cut a 7-mile canal through the frozen harbor so that the Cunard liner Britannia could make it out to sea.

More on the century of close ties between Boston and the Cunard line […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The 210-foot superyacht Athos, claimed to be the largest privately owned two-masted schooner in the world, was up for sale a few years ago for around $50 million. This gray morning she was tied up on a Charlestown dock .

See […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
September 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
September 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Veteran Cape Cod catboats in their native environment.

#capecod #sail
September 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Ospreys in Stage Harbor.

#capecod
September 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Labor Day ends the racing season for Cotuit Skiffs and I've still never seen any under sail, but they look almost absurdly picturesque sitting on their moorings.

https://churbuck.com/2006/08/07/one-hundred-years-of-cotuit-skiffs-2/

#sailboat #capecod
September 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
September 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
August 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM