by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: This story was written Wednesday. The bill passed and will go to Gov. Sununu, who I image will sign it. Among the geekiest of potential new state laws – one that would exempt some types of bitcoin transactions from oversight by the state banking commission –...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Newsletter
This article will appear in the Monitor at some future date (it’s a “floater” – an article with no timeliness that can be held until we have room for a good presentation in print), but rather than wait, here’s an unedited version for you...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Massachusetts’ demand for non-fossil-fuel sources of electricity is driving proposals to bring Quebec electricity down through NH, and it’s getting closer to producing the nation’s first offshore wind farm of real size. (Block Island in Rhode Island...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Newsletter
I love the whole Maker movement, although I must confess that I love it from afar. I haven’t got the pattern-matching ability, patience, visualization capability or fine motor skills to be a tinkerer. I break things without even trying; if I was a genius, I...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
You know the saying “garbage in, garbage out,” of course, but just as relevant is “misleading information in, misleading conclusion out.” I had fun in Sunday’s Monitor with a perfect example of this: It was one of those endless...
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