by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog
Dyn has not issued anything new on the Oct. 21 DDOS attack that clogged it up and took down some major customers, including Twitter – specifically, who did the attack and why. (Their most recent public report was Oct. 26 on the company blog.) Meanwhile, the...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Wikipedia was created as an example of the openness-will-lead-to-goodness online world – an “encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” But as it has grown in size and importance, this philosophy (forward-looking and delightful or pitifully naive, depending...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog
Our last Science Cafe before the December break is tonight in Concord. The topic? 3-D printing: It was the next big thing a couple of years ago, with visions of a world where we could print out most of our worldly goods on demand, and then it faded out of view. Two...
by David Brooks | Nov 14, 2016 | Blog
How about a bit of good environmental news? Global CO2 emissions has flattened over the past couple of years, largely because China has cut back on its use of coal: The study, published in the journal Earth System Science Data, says global CO2 emissions from fossil...
by David Brooks | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog
Scientists refer to the transition from winter to spring, as temperatures rise, ice melts and frost heaves buckle our roads, as the “vernal window”, and a new study shows it’s changing. New Hampshire researchers investigating how climate change influences the...
by David Brooks | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog
I never was a Dungeons and Dragons fanatic but I know plenty of people who play or used to play, and of course it has become a sort of totem of geek culture. So it’s appropriate that it was one of the three playthings just added to the Toy Hall of Fame –...
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