by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2017 | Newsletter
On Tuesday, Nobel-wining economist Kenneth Arrow died at age 95. He is known for many economic discoveries, but geeks know him mostly for Arrow’s Theorem, an examination of different types of voting systems which showed that none is perfect. It’s the...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Nature has been honing the design of plant cells for many megaclarke years (to use the Potrzebie Systems of Weights and Measures because – well, why not?) and has developed some very tough cell walls, especially in cellulose, which acts as a support system for...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2017 | Newsletter
Hepatitis B and other diseases deemed “non-communicable in a child care or school setting” would be removed from the list of vaccines required by the state under a bill that got a surprise boost Wednesday, Feb. 22, from a House committee. The bill, passed by the House...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2017 | Newsletter
Television broadcasting is all about visuals, but it turns out that the valuable part of WBIN-TV wasn’t anything that we could see. Last Friday, Bill Binnie announced that he would be shutting down the state’s youngest television station because he had sold its...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This item appeared in last week’s Granite Geek newsletter. You can subscribe to the free publication by clicking here and filling out a mildly-but-not-too-annoying form: Our family’s 2003 Honda Civic hybrid recently passed the 230,000-mile mark – an...
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