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In some potentially game-changing news for the way we understand professional football, the National Football League began the 2016 preseason by placing tracking sensors in its footballs for the first time. The chips are also in balls used in Thursday night games.
Five years ago, on September 30, "Occupy Boston" first pillaged Dewey Square. For 72 days its participants appeared to be darlings of left-leaning media and left-leaning office holders until the lawless occupation of public space was finally dismantled. Today, remarkably, the Occupy movement is a fast fading memory, its professed "cause" aimless and irrelevant. What happened?
The so-called "contagious protest," better known nationally as Occupy Wall Street (eventually spreading to eighty-two countries), began in New York City's financial district on September 17, 2011. It spawned mini movements across the country, including Boston, as a means to express outrage over social and economic inequality.