• BEFORE 1776: KING PHILIP’S WAR AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA

    Cambridge Forum 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Massachusetts soil holds two stories. One is celebrated every July 4th. The other, older, bloodier, and deliberately buried, is the one we need to understand first.   One hundred years before the American Revolution, King Philip’s War engulfed the Indigenous nations of southern New England, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Narragansett and others, in one of the deadliest […]

  • BIRDING, A CULTURE IN FLIGHT

    Cambridge Forum 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Everyone notices birds. But how many of us are birders? There is a difference, and it comes with its own language. Lifers and listers. Twitchers and stringers. Spark birds and nemesis birds. Birding is a subculture with its own rules, its own ethics, and its own obsessions, and right now, it is one of the […]

  • THE END OF LONELINESS? AI AND THE FUTURE OF CONNECTION

    Cambridge Forum 3 Church St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Can a machine love you? Can you love it back? And if millions of people already believe the answer is yes, does the distinction still matter?   AI companion platforms now count tens of millions of users, many of them young adults who say these relationships feel safer, more attentive, and more reliable than human […]