From Fenway to Kendall: Science, sports and music

Two items of note in today’s Globe. The first, a story about how the Red Sox are dealing with sports injuries.

The Red Sox are working to be at the forefront of what could be baseball’s next landmark innovation, the ability to assess, treat, prevent, and perhaps even forecast injuries so effectively that it creates a competitive advantage.

Much like the revolution in statistical analysis last decade that changed game strategy and how players are evaluated, teams that pour staffing and financial resources into their medical departments could leap ahead of their competition.

Also, Boston scientists who takes the Red Line to Broad, Biogen or the back end of MIT know the Kendall Square T stop. Now, the Kendall Band, a hanging, chiming, clanging underground sculpture, is about to be reinstalled in the Cambridge station. Read more here from the Globe

The work was installed for the opening of the rebuilt Kendall Station in 1987. It consists of three massive, carefully tuned band members — "Pythagoras,‘’ a row of pendulous, pipe-like bells and mallets; "Kepler,’’ a hammer and a ring big enough for a dolphin to leap through; and "Galileo,‘’ a metal sheet the size of a barn door — that hang between the inbound and outbound Red Line tracks. Those instruments are connected by a delicate network of rods, cables, and gears to a set of handles on the station’s platforms.

When it works, the band produces resonant and enchanting music that rumbles and swells in the station and rises faintly above ground in Kendall Square. But its maintenance requires money and expertise that the T lacks.

Here’s a link to the Kendall Band Preservation Society.

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