by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog
Many – no, let’s be honest: most – traditional, ancient medicines are useless or feeble, long ago surpassed by scientific medicine. But sometimes the overused idea of “ancient wisdom” leads to something useful, and in those cases we...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog
Colleges, even the Ivy League superstars, love to seem cool as a lure to future students. So Dartmouth has got to be preening over the fact that the robotic football tackling dummy developed by the Thayer School of Engineering and Football Coach Buddy Teevens ’will...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Environmental, Nature
Barry Rock is retired, so you might not pay much attention when he laments that something was better when he was young. When the topic is leaf-peeping, however, you absolutely should pay attention. “There was a time you could count on it like clockwork, that there...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
The startup competitions are coming fast and furious. Last Friday was Rise of the Rest, featuring AOL founder Steven Case (if the words “warm regards” come to mind, you were also online before that Internet thing got up to speed*), which gave $100,000 to...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
It seems surprising that more businesses don’t have solar panels on their roof, especially all those in big industrial buildings with big, flat roofs. (Gaze down while taking off from Manchester airport southbound on runway 17/35 and you’ll spot a sea of...
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