by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College gives annual awards for speculative fiction. Not quite as well known as the Hugos or Nebula awards but not bad. Here’s the story from Dartmouth News Service: Debut author Cadwell Turnbull won...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Great Britain lost more than 16,000 positive COVID-19 test results, apparently because they use an old version of Excel that doesn’t have enough rows or columns to handle the data. Australian mathematics comedian Matt Parker, a well-known spreadsheet fan, has...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
in the U.S. right now, dudes – I think that’s an appropriate term to use here – are more likely to pretend that COVID-19 isn’t a big problem than women are. That extremely non-surprising result, obvious to anybody who goes into any public area...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2020 | Newsletter
Forgive the thin gruel this week – I’m taking a bit of a stay-cation.
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There are probably a lot of bugs invading your house right now that stink when you smash them. But that doesn’t mean they’re stinkbugs. They’re more likely to be western conifer seedbugs, or perhaps box elder bugs. And they might actually be a stinkbug – the damaging...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The explosion in white-tailed deer throughout the Northeast hasn’t been good for forests because those voracious so-and-so’s eat all the tree seedlings, altering the makeup of the woods (when they’re not eating all your hostas). Or so I’ve...
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