by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2015 | Blog
This is the closest I will ever come to fame, I suspect: I am now a member of The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists run by the irrepressible Marc Abrahams, chief pooh-bah of the Ig Nobel awards and the Annals of Improbable...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
According to a database compiled by the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College (love that name – “the drone” is much cooler than “drones” for some reason), three groups in New Hampshire have received an exemption from the FAA...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
Vermont is a leader in large-scale composting and has mandated that virtually all food waste must stop going to landfills by 2020. But it’s finding that large-scale composting has some nasal complications. As Seven Days reports: The stink at the compost facility...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
The Chronicle for Higher Education reports that MIT is proposing to use its own free open online courses as a filter to sort through all the people who want to be in master’s programs there. (Story is here) Students who do well in a series of free online courses...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
Vaccines work like this: We’re injected with controlled doses of disease-causing microbes, either dead or live, and our system creates antibodies to fight the disease. Those antibodies linger in our bloodstream so when we encounter the microbes later...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
In the days before natural gas was piped into communities, gas lighting and heating used “manufactured gas” – made by burning and processing coal, and sometimes oil. Most communities had their own Manufactured Gas Plant, because it wasn’t...
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