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...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This item appeared in last week’s Granite Geek newsletter. You can subscribe to the free publication by clicking here and filling out a mildly-but-not-too-annoying form: Our family’s 2003 Honda Civic hybrid recently passed the 230,000-mile mark – an...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
On Sunday, scientists, science advocates, and others will rally at Boston’s Copley Square to call for what orgaznies say is “increased vigilance to defend science against the barrage of attacks mounted by the Trump administration and Congress. The rally...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
NOTE: If you subscribe to my newsletter, you saw this last week. So why not subscribe – right here! I recently saw “Hidden Figures,” the movie about the black women “computers” who helped the early NASA manned launches, and it was great....
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Large anti-government protests in Boston are becoming more common than large celebrating-a-sports-championship rallies – and there will be another one on Sunday. It will have a geeky twist because it coincides with the huge American Association for the...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog
There’s something really cool about fishers, the large weasel-like predator that lives in northern woodlands. (Not “fisher cat” despite the baseball team’s name – they aren’t cats.) (Although they don’t eat fish, either; what...
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