PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The scientist in Dr. David Dosa was skeptical when first told that Oscar, an aloof cat kept by a nursing home, regularly predicted patients’ deaths by snuggling alongside them in their final hours.
Dosa’s doubts eroded after he and his colleagues tallied about 50 correct calls made by Oscar over five years, a process he explains in a book released this week, “Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat. Read More...
Explore More More than a million Con Ed customers came dangerously close to being left without heat for months after last year’sdeadly Winter Storm Elliot triggered widespread power outages — and worse may be yet to come, according to recent reports from top energy regulators. A joint investigation by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) found that Elliott was the fifth winter event in 11 years where blackouts threatened the electric grid. Read More...
David Cole is national legal director of the ACLU and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He represented Brandi Levy before the Supreme Court.
Nearly 50 years ago, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the Supreme Court announced that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The decision is justly celebrated as recognizing that students have speech rights inside school, as the court ruled that Mary Beth Tinker could not be punished for wearing a black armband to school to protest the Vietnam War. Read More...