Dan Morrell
Through the static and distance.
Live in Boston. Work for Harvard Business School. Partner at Dog Ear Consultants (dogearconsultants.com).
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The Middle Way
How Wally Eamer helped broker a historic peace in the forests of British Columbia
The Boston Globe
You’ve never heard of the rapper Token? You will.
At just 18, Marblehead’s Ben Goldberg is touring Europe, hanging out with Mark Wahlberg, and cementing his status as hip-hop’s next big star.
alumni.hbs.edu
Higher Ground
How Carlos Miguel Prieto conducted a post-Katrina comeback for the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
The Boston Globe
Magic's Next Act
Waltham’s Shin Lim could be the biggest name in magic since David Blaine
denisonmagazine.com
The Deep Roots of American Racism
A little bit before 10 p.m. on July 13, 2013, Kelly Brown Douglas’s phone started buzzing with texts. The verdict in the case of the state of Florida vs. George Zimmerman—who was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin—was in. Douglas ’79, a religion professor at Baltimore’s Goucher College and an Episcopalian priest, turned on the TV and watched in stunned silence as Zimmerman was exonerated.
Boston magazine
Disconnected
They’re called “phreakers,” and they can do with a phone what hackers can do with computers. Few were more skilled—or more feared—than Matt Weigman, a blind teenager from East Boston. Using his heightened senses, he made himself untouchable. What he lacked, the FBI says, was the good sense to know when to hang up.
ucf.edu
The Science of Scent
Professor Konstantin Vodopyanov’s revolutionary technology
could make diagnosing disease as easy as exhaling.
Slate
Car Companies Are Seeing the Light
Automakers are experimenting with lightweight bodies and new engines to meet ambitious fuel efficiency standards.
The Atlantic
Brave Thinker: Jay Bradner
Two years ago, after Jay Bradner made a remarkable breakthrough—the discovery of a molecule that, in mice, appeared to trick certain cancer cells into becoming normal cells—he did something unusual.
Boston magazine
The Copycat Saint
Boston has no shortage of nonprofit groups. The provocative question at the heart of venture capitalist John Simon’s GreenLight Fund—which cribs the best initiatives from around the country and imports them here—is whether we have the ones we really need to solve the city’s problems.
The Boston Globe
We’ve seen the future, and it is hyperlocal craft beer
The science nerds behind Cambridge-based Lamplighter are betting it all on complex flavors.
alumni.hbs.edu
Good Investments
Make money by helping the poor? That’s the promise of a new brand of socially conscious investors. They just need a few true believers—and a few big wins—to bring their vision to the masses.
denisonmagazine.com
The Night Phish Played Denison
Before they played venues like Madison Square Garden, the band from Vermont debuted some of the biggest hits from their canon right in the living room of the Beta Theta Pi house.
Monocle
Ahead of the game
The sports writer has a tough job. Crafting a story that’s more than mere results reporting takes toil – especially when sports players are often famously ineloquent. And then there are the deadlines.
Boston magazine
Dispatches from the Next Tech Gold Rush
Biotech gets all the hype. Until not so long ago, Silicon Valley was getting all the money. Now local high-tech entrepreneurs are forging a quiet resurgence—and might just transform the Hub in the bargain.