by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the great pleasures of being a reporter is stumbling onto stuff you didn’t know – like the way New Hampshire issues about 140 permits a year for people to do gold prospecting in our rivers and streams. There’s gold in them thar White...
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...
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