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Articles by Billy Hickey
Space & Cosmos|Some Buy Telescopes. These People Build Them From Scratch. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/science/space/stellafane-telescopes-makers.html Nearly every summer for the past 100 years, stargazers have made the bumpy trek to the top of Breezy Hill, in the woods of Springfield, Vt., to honor the age-old tradition of making telescopes by hand. The three-day gathering, hosted by the Springfield Telescope Makers club, is called Stellafane.
Taking Out the Trash: These Old Ladies Are Cleaning Up Cape Cod
Members of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage hand up finds to Diane Hammer in her kayak at Lovells Pond in Barnstable, Mass., June 26, 2026. The group, whose youngest member is 65, estimates they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. EDITORS NOTE: Attn: Mass.); (ART ADV: With photos. BARNSTABLE, Mass. -- The pond looked pristine, reflecting the wispy clouds and languid blue of a summertime Cape Cod sky. The women gathered at its edge were not fooled.
Taking Out the Trash: These Old Ladies Are Cleaning Up Cape Cod
The pond looked pristine, reflecting the wispy clouds and languid blue of a summertime Cape Cod sky. The women gathered at its edge were not fooled. They had scouted the pond months earlier and knew what was held in its depths: Hundreds of old beer cans and wine bottles, cracked golf balls and cinder blocks, wooden palettes and long-forgotten gewgaws. The women had prepared for this moment. Trained for it. Passed a swim test. They set out into the water in life jackets and kayaks, snorkels and masks.
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HARVARD ISRAEL
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — The law school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., July 27, 2023. After a student group at Harvard blamed Israel for the violence, Lawrence Summers, a former university president, condemned the university’s leadership for not speaking up.
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FILE — The law school at Harvard University, where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a graduate student, in Cambridge, Mass., July 27, 2023. Over the years DeSantis has embraced and exploited his Ivy League credentials, but is now reframing his experiences at Yale and Harvard for his presidential primary run to wage a vengeful political war. (Billy Hickey/The New York Times)
Some Firefly Species Await a Night That Never Comes
Science|Some Firefly Species Await a Night That Never Comes https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/science/firefly-light-mating.html Trilobites A study found that while some fireflies shrugged off light pollution, members of other species failed to mate even when males and females could find each other. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Avalon Owens, an entomologist at Tufts University, capturing fireflies at dusk.
How We Were - Photographs by Billy Hickey
How We Were Quarantined at home for weeks on end, Bill Hickey turned his lens onto his family, finding glimmers of beauty in the mundane to create a document of everyday life during the pandemic. The pandemic has wreaked havoc on people all over the world in myriad ways, from our shelter, to our livelihood, our security and, ultimately, our global mental and physical health.
WINNERS—Black & White Photography Awards 2020
Munem Wasif’s photography and film investigates complex social and political issues with a humanistic language, by getting close to the people, physically and psychologically, dealing with multiple questions and contradictions. Expressionistic in style and long-term in method, Wasif often experiments beyond the tradition, tests the possibilities of fiction, by borrowing a familiar documentary language.
WINNERS-Black & White Photography Awards 2020
Munem Wasif’s photography and film investigates complex social and political issues with a humanistic language, by getting close to the people, physically and psychologically, dealing with multiple questions and contradictions. Expressionistic in style and long-term in method, Wasif often experiments beyond the tradition, tests the possibilities of fiction, by borrowing a familiar documentary language.
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