by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Blog
There have been somewhere around a dozen cases this summer of water-carrying aircraft having to turn back from a wildfire scene because a personal drone was flying nearby, filming it. U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire has sponsored a bill that would make such...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Blog
The troubled Plymouth Nuclear Power Station on Boston’s South Shore is going to close, its owner, Entergy said Tuesday. This isn’t entirely a surprise, since the plant was facing a big safety-upgrade bill, but it puts more strain on New England’s...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Blog
Excellent interview in the New York Times about the Nobel Prize in Medicine given to Prof. Tu Youyou concerning malaria. (Read the whole thing here.) Tu based her work on materials that were found by studying the pharmacopoeia* of traditional Chinese medicine, which...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Science-Technology
I feel very safe in predicting that you, dear reader, have never thought much about screw threads. Although your life has been filled with screwing together pieces of wood, screwing bolts into nuts and hunting for screws on the floor after dropping them in the middle...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2015 | Blog
I have been organizing and moderating monthly Science Cafe discussions for four years, including discussion of hot-button topics like climate change and vaccinations. But in all those years, only one session has gotten so heated that I had to tell people in the...
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