by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter, Science-Technology
This post ran in 2016. Now that Wikipedia has turned 20, I figured I would run it again. This column concerns a number – 15, the number of years that Wikipedia will have existed when its birthday arrives Friday – but first let’s consider a Wikipedia-related tale about...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Jan. 15, 2021 is the 20th anniversary of wikipeiia, so I’m resurrecting this column from 2018. As you probably know, 4.78 percent of Concord’s total surface area is made up of water. Wait – you didn’t know that? Then you haven’t read Wikipedia in the past 15...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
Sorry for the confusion but I have now undone an overly hasty correction. I “corrected” myself before double-checking, which was stupid. My original posting was correct – we are getting 18,000 DOSES of vaccine a week, not 18,000 vials of vaccine...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Newsletter
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by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A replacement highway bridge in Hampden, a town next to Bangor, Maine, has girders made partly of composite materials and there’s real hope this could cut down on maintenance problems, especially rust caused by road salt. The Bangor Daily News has a story...