by David Brooks | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog
On NHPR today I managed to sneak in the plot of a science-fiction short story I tried to write in my 20s, when I thought I could be the Next Great American Novelist. The plot: Astronauts land on an asteroid and find the Platonic Solids – the actual perfect cube,...
by David Brooks | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog
UPDATE: Wired looks at a similar idea – genetically modified rats for the Galapagos Island – and ponders the whole idea of manipulating genetics to “restore” natural areas. Here’s the story. The NY Times has a story about an idea by an...
by David Brooks | Jun 6, 2016 | Blog
By Targeted News Service: DEKA Products of Manchester has been assigned an ornamental design patent (D757,272) developed by two co-inventors for an ornamental design for a “display screen with vertically centered text lines.” The co-inventors are Gregory Distler of...
by David Brooks | Jun 5, 2016 | Blog
CRISPR, the gene-editing method that is revolutionizing biology and possibly medicine, is so important that it was the topic of two Science Cafes this year, in both Concord and Nashua, but it’s also quite new and still being analyzed. As the NY Times reports: On...
by David Brooks | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog
We all like to think that our winters will kill off ticks, but it doesn’t – part of the reason that Lyme disease has spread so much in New England. But why doesn’t it? Because the ticks are good at finding shelter, according to a study that the...
by David Brooks | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog
How about some good news for a change: The U.S. teen birth rate (that is, rate of women age 19 or less who have babies) has fallen by more than half in a decade and by two-thirds – two-thirds! – since it peaked in 1991. Nobody’s entirely sure why,...
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