by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The New England Patriots are the local football team – football as in “using a ball that’s pointy on both ends” not “using a ball covered with pentagons and hexagons” – and they’re going to the championship game for the...
by David Brooks | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This story just missed the newsletter deadline, so I’m sending it out separately: The death of a woman who was burned when the Tesla Model X in which she was riding hit a tree is the first fatal accident involving an electric car in New Hampshire, raising the...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
These days, computers are old hat. If they want to be interesting, you need to think smaller – much smaller. As in subatomic, quantum-level small. “There are fundamentally different principles that quantum mechanics brings. There are types of quantum correlations that...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A group called First Street Foundation with help from some Columbia University data scientists has crunched some numbers and says that increased erosion and tidal flooding caused by rising sea levels, caused in turn by climate change, have trimmed $15.2 million off...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The ice runway on Lake Winnipesaukee’s Alton Bay has opened for the season. It’s the only FAA-approved runway on ice in the lower 48 states. AOPA, the Airline Aircraft Owners and Pilot’s Association, loves this place. AOPA is the main organization...