by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
Human brains can’t handle numbers like 292 million, which is why you think you have a chance to win the Powerball lottery. (Odds of the grand prize are 292,201,338 to 1.) Well, you don’t. To demonstrate, here’s another way to think of that number: A...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
I can’t afford a Tesla and real-world electric cars don’t have the range to handle my embarrassingly long commute (shame on me) – until now, that is. Later this year General Motors will start selling the Bolt, the badly-named (too close to its Volt)...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
If you want a single poetic sentence that sums up the issues facing humanity and the planet, you could do a lot worse than the opening line of the first Whole Earth Catalog in 1968: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” A less poetic way to...
by David Brooks | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog
From NH Fish & Game: Residents in northern New Hampshire may spot a helicopter overhead in the coming weeks as approximately 45 moose cows and calves are collared for the third year of a six-year study of moose mortality and productivity. (You can see a video...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2016 | Blog
You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about tiny houses – houses smaller than 1,000 square feet houses on individual foundations or trailers, usually built on site unlike manufactured housing and with more attention to energy efficiency and internal...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2015 | Blog
In pre-computer days, there were many variations of the slide rule. These were portable devices of varying shapes, with various scales (often logarithmic), that had different sliding or turning markers. They were used to simplify conversions or calculations, and their...
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