by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Great line in a Gizmodo story (worth reading: right here) about a variant of the CRISPR technique being eyed for killing “superbug” bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics: If CRISPR-Cas9 is a genetic scalpel, CRISPR-Cas3 is a chainsaw. As the story...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Mashable has a good discussion of how insanely warm February has been in the U.S. (Concord, for example, broke a 142-year-old record for high temperarue on Feb. 22): Through Feb. 22, daily record highs have been blowing away daily record lows by a greater than...
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...
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