by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
On Friday, Wikipedia becomes old enough to be married in Idaho, Missouri or Hawaii with parental consent. In anticipation of its 15th birthday, including a party to be held at harvard that you – yes, you – can attend, I talked with NHPR’s Peter...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2016 | Addiction, Health
What exactly is an overdose, and why do some people die from it, while others do not? “What physiologically is going on?” asked an audience member Tuesday evening during the launch of Science Cafe Concord, the popular discussion series moderated by Monitor reporter...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
Human brains can’t handle numbers like 292 million, which is why you think you have a chance to win the Powerball lottery. (Odds of the grand prize are 292,201,338 to 1.) Well, you don’t. To demonstrate, here’s another way to think of that number: A...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
I can’t afford a Tesla and real-world electric cars don’t have the range to handle my embarrassingly long commute (shame on me) – until now, that is. Later this year General Motors will start selling the Bolt, the badly-named (too close to its Volt)...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
If you want a single poetic sentence that sums up the issues facing humanity and the planet, you could do a lot worse than the opening line of the first Whole Earth Catalog in 1968: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” A less poetic way to...
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