by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2016 | Blog
This spring, National Grid will launch a new online marketplace that allows customers in Rhode Island to shop for solar and receive an incentive for improving energy efficiency at the same time. That’s the word from GreentechMedia (article is here): Customers...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2016 | Blog
Google’s AI defeated the world’s champion in the east Asian board game of Go. It beat him pretty soundly, too, and hehas a rank of 9 Dan, which is mind-bogglingly high. “Deep learning is killing every problem in AI.” Humanity is doomed. Go is a...
by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog
ConcordTV, the city’s community channel, has uploaded an edited, half-hour version of the most recent Science Cafe Concord, discussing CRISPR and the revolution in gene editing. You can check it out here. Don’t forget, the next Science Cafe NH in Nashua...
by David Brooks | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
Years ago I was in Tennessee when a total solar eclipse happened. It was a fascinating and yet unsettling thing to observe. You can understand how pre-technical societies freaked out over eclipses, a fact that Christopher Columbus famously used to his advantage with a...
by David Brooks | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
Bird poop conducts electricity much better than mammal poop, because bird anatomy mixes poop and pee together, combining salts and liquids that are mostly separated by the digestive systems of non-feathered folks. (Telling your little brother to urinate on a live...
by David Brooks | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog
Silicon Valley gets most of the credit for creating the online world, but the engineering-consulting firm / MIT spinoff Bolt Beranek and Newman in Boston, a.k.a. BBN, was one of the main driving forces in the development of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet....
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