by David Brooks | Oct 11, 2015 | Blog
I’m not a car guy, in the sense of somebody who salivates over particular models or spends Saturdays working on my vehicle, although I can appreciate good engineering and design in a semi-detached manner, and I enjoy driving a stick shift for reasons I...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2015 | Blog
This is the closest I will ever come to fame, I suspect: I am now a member of The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists run by the irrepressible Marc Abrahams, chief pooh-bah of the Ig Nobel awards and the Annals of Improbable...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
According to a database compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College (love that name – “the drone” is much cooler than “drones” for some reason), three groups in New Hampshire have received an exemption from the FAA...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
Vermont is a leader in large-scale composting and has mandated that virtually all food waste must stop going to landfills by 2020. But it’s finding that large-scale composting has some nasal complications. As Seven Days reports: The stink at the compost facility...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
The Chronicle for Higher Education reports that MIT is proposing to use its own free open online courses as a filter to sort through all the people who want to be in master’s programs there. (Story is here) Students who do well in a series of free online courses...
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