by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog
The Chicago Transit Authority* has tested electric buses and found that they work great, and is ordered a couple dozen with 300-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery packs, which the CTA says provides a range of 80 miles. It claims overnight charging takes just 3 to 5...
by David Brooks | Feb 1, 2016 | Blog
Want to escape the Iowa caucus results tomorrow night? Come to The Draft Sports Bar for Science Cafe Concord, a Q&A session titled Bitcoin & Beyond – discussing not just the confused state of the cyber-currency, but the incredible promise in its...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog
Today I am writing stories about the Zika virus and tainted city drinking water, so a variant of the chorus from the cheezy song “Everglades” is stuck in my head: “If the skeeters don’t get him then the lead-pipes will.” (No, I...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle explosion, which was a sad and painful moment for Americans, for space fans, and for Christa McAuliffe’s home town of Concord. The Concord Monitor has a package of stories about that day and what has...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
The most surprising, to me, part of my story today about a law proposing GMO labeling was the final bit: The most unusual argument in favor of the bill came from Rabbi Robin Nafshi of Temple Beth Jacob in Concord, who discussed concern that eating genetically modified...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
Chess : checkers :: Go : chess That statement (“chess is to checkers as Go is to chess”) is a succinct, if arrogant, expression of the belief held by many that the east Asian board game of Go is far deeper than the western board game of chess. (I’m...
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