A moment of silence as the iPod shuffles to the end
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Last week, the iPod officially died. The last available iPod, the most recent iteration of the Touch, was discontinued by Apple, finally ending a music-listening…
Voices
The slippery slope of child-abuse algorithms
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // In a case that’s garnered national attention, ex-NYPD cop Michael Valva and his former fiancée, Angela Pollina, will face a judge and jury at the end…
Guns kill kids, and if lawmakers won’t act, doctors will
By TERRY LYNAM // For the first time in more than 60 years, gunshot wounds have overtaken motor vehicle accidents as the number-one killer of American children. While certainly a…
Gluten-free galley is icing atop ace food-biz incubator
By DAVID HAMILTON // There’s a real gem hidden inside the Food Business Incubator at Calverton, like finally getting in enough licks on your Tootsie Pop to discover the delicious…
At BNL, an energetic history of medical innovation
By TOM MARINER // Upton-based Brookhaven National Laboratory is a national treasure operating at the forefront of energy science – but it’s also made profound contributions to medical sciences. One…
EV ambitions are nice – but what’s the action plan?
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // As we mark Earth Day No. 52 on April 22, have the challenges to our environment ever been greater? The UN has warned that time…
Charitable lessons abound in Ukraine Airbnb campaign
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // With 4 million homeowner-hosts welcoming more than 1 billion short-term guests since 2008, Airbnb has handily disrupted the hotel industry. Now, as the horrors of war…
Eager healthcare heroes can only watch agonizing war
By TERRY LYNAM // The human suffering and misery unfolding every day in Ukraine is agonizing to watch for anyone with a human conscience – but its heart-wrenching, and frustrating,…
A sweet new gig for this grizzled clean-gen guru
By DAVID HAMILTON // So, a food incubator … a what now? I’ve run Stony Brook University’s Clean Energy Business Incubator Program for the past decade, and its Advanced Energy…
Sometimes, innovation’s apple falls close to the tree
By TOM MARINER // A tireless leader, real innovation, deep devotion among staff – these are the hallmarks of many successful tech firms headquartered on Long Island. But let’s not…
Legal levity abounds, even in cold, calculating courts
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // Not surprisingly, legal writing and commentary is often dry and stiff. Litigation is serious business. Legal principles can be complex. And the meaning of laws…
In Rogan controversy, social media’s darker evolution
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // On the surface, it’s easy to paint the latest controversy for Spotify flagship enterprise “The Joe Rogan Experience” with broad strokes: another example of COVID-19…
Politics, truth and the lethal lie of ‘crack pipes for all’
By JEFFREY REYNOLDS // Was the federal government really planning to give away $30 million worth of taxpayer-funded crack pipes? No. But that didn’t stop The Washington Free Beacon from…
Two years in, still confronting big COVID questions
By TERRY LYNAM // Today, Feb. 11, marks the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 – at least, the anniversary of the World Health Organization giving the novel coronavirus a formal name….
Short version: If computing advanced, Ken chipped in
By TOM MARINER // A hundred-billion tiny computer chips are all around us – so essential that their current shortage is depriving us of everything from cars to toasters. When…