by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The ability of the technology known as CRISPR (actually CRISPR/Ca9, but who’s counting?) to edit genomes of living things grows more astonishing each day. There are lots of positives to this, notably relatively cheap and accessible gene therapy, but there are...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
The best sentence I’ve read in a while is: “Birds can cause insulator flashovers due to their long streams of stringy, conductive and semi-liquid excrement.” I just had to share.* I’m working on a follow-up to the a 13,000-customer outage this...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
Resistance to antibiotics is a big problem, and it’s satisfying to blame others – like Big Agriculture, which doles out low doses to animals as a way to increase weight gain, despite the fact that it harms society. Resistances is scary and getting scarier:...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog
Green Mountain Power, the Vermont utility that has received national attention for its very Vermont-ish approach to producing and distributing electricity, has taken another interesting step: It is partnering with Tesla to offer home storage batteries for...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog
The hardy kiwi is a variety of the small green fruit that a UNH professor thinks could be a new cash crop for the North Country, if it gets a little more domesticated through breeding. But as is reported in the first episode of a new N.H. Public Radio podcast called...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
Quartz has a post about an attempt to mathematically determine how funny a word is. You can read it here, but be warned: The math is wrong, because it thinks the nonsense word “finglam” is funny. It’s not funny.
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