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....
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+)
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