by David Brooks | Sep 29, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
You know how Netflix clobbered Blockbuster using new technology? A very new New Hampshire startup has visions of doing the same thing to Netflix using an even newer technology. The company, named Lbry, wants to deliver content online like movies via distributed...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog
There is a push to make governments design and implement programs which are objectively testable, and then to test them when deciding whether to continue. This is, of course, the basic approach of science. So it’s seems a good idea to expand it to government. I...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2015 | Blog
The web comic Ph.D. has made fun of graduate-student life for many decades and even produced two short movies based on long-running characters. It’s a fun comic, well worth following – check it out here. Every now and then, it provides some insight into...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2015 | Blog
“Biologists say that for the first time in decades, they are hearing from Bangor-area fishermen trying to figure out the best way to catch shad, the largest type of herring known for its savory meat.” That a telling sentence in this Portland Press-Herald...
by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog
Concord Patch, one of the few functioning chapters left from that noble effort to create a national network of local news outlets, has posted an item with pictures from some people who say they saw a UFO over Concord. It’s the classic “I don’t know...
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