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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

The role of the spectator in ‘Anatomy of a Fall’

Ada Sussman November 29, 2023
As "Anatomy of a Fall" unfurls, the film itself becomes a clinical investigation of our own scrutiny. The tight, vérité-style structure of the film allows the audience to become acutely aware of their status as spectators. And like cinema vérité, the film takes a solely observational role in the telling of the story, giving the audience no more information than the jurors. 
medical students in a laboratory

BU medical community looks toward post-pandemic healthcare, research

Rachel Do April 28, 2021
As the number of vaccinated Americans climb, BU researchers reflect on how the country fought COVID-19.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Will artificial intelligence send us to hell or create it?

Antonia Lehnert April 4, 2021
It is nearly impossible to separate technology that can help versus harm us, but we must try to draw the line.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With A View: History is repeating itself, but we can break the cycle

Antonia Lehnert March 22, 2021
If we succeed in mastering history the right way, we will avoid reliving the tragedies of the past.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

I Call Foul Play: Ideologies that dismiss science are dangerous

Luca Becker February 26, 2021
This ideology of politicizing science — such as Trump’s politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic — already has and will continue to have large-scale consequences in the real world.
KASTRITIS: The importance of empirical evidence

KASTRITIS: The importance of empirical evidence

Elias Kastritis December 6, 2016

As most people can probably recall from their primary school days, the keystone of the modern scientific method is the premium it places on verifiable, replicable experimentation, useful for investigation...

Juvenile cases without evidence to be dismissed by judges

Daily Free Press Admin December 2, 2013

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided Tuesday that juvenile court judges can now dismiss criminal complaints against juveniles if there is no evidence of probable cause before an arraignment...

EDIT: Report confirms U.S. torture

Daily Free Press Admin April 17, 2013

When your country is in a state of emergency, all you want is answers. The U.S. government, the Bush administration specifically, strove to find those answers. So the U.S. government resorted to torture....

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