by David Brooks | Mar 4, 2016 | Blog
Bitcoin has a scale problem – it’s growing too fast for its underlying mechanism to handle. The Verge reports “The average time to confirm a transaction has ballooned from 10 minutes to 43 minutes. Users are left confused and shops that once accepted...
by David Brooks | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog
Stat, the medical/biotech specialty publication of the Boston Globe, has a good long piece about efforts to entirely eliminate mosquitoes from a small Pacific island via the release of sterile males infected with a natural bacteria that interferes with the bugs’...
by David Brooks | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog
Sex, crime and gambling are good clickbait, but nothing beats unnatural relationships between man and beast. (The number was much higher yesterday, closer to the publication date – 78,000+)
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
AAA conducted a survey of its members and says that “three out of four U.S. drivers report feeling “afraid” to ride in a self-driving car.” Here’s the press release. Since a switch to self-driving cars would probably decimate membership (in literal...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2016 | Blog
A NY Times column/blog called The Upshot has accused New Hampshire of giving Marco Rubio one too few delegates after the GOP primary, but as I discuss in the Concord Monitor today, they’re wrong. They misinterpreted the confusingly worded state law which says...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
I have a pleasant little feature story in the Monitor today about a Leap Day Baby born in Concord, which includes a little back-of-envelope calculation about how many such people live in New Hampshire: Since there is one Feb. 29 every 1,461 days – with slight...
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