by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2017 | Newsletter
Television broadcasting is all about visuals, but it turns out that the valuable part of WBIN-TV wasn’t anything that we could see. Last Friday, Bill Binnie announced that he would be shutting down the state’s youngest television station because he had sold its...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This item appeared in last week’s Granite Geek newsletter. You can subscribe to the free publication by clicking here and filling out a mildly-but-not-too-annoying form: Our family’s 2003 Honda Civic hybrid recently passed the 230,000-mile mark – an...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Newsletter
Special clothing is often needed when you’re visiting a farm: Boots, gloves, hats, overalls, lab coats. Lab coats? “We wear lab coats in the greenhouse because this is where you could have the most contact with the plant material,” explained Henry Huntington,...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Newsletter
When you’re talking to a guy who won what is sometimes called the Nobel Prize of engineering for helping make smartphone cameras possible, you want to hear a good “Eureka!” story. The first (and still the best) of such stories, of course, came when Archimedes leapt...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Newsletter
The U.S. Chess League, an ongoing effort to create a professional chess league with teams and high-profile players (grandmasters, etc) has folded, and an intriguing new league has taken its place. Called Professional Rapid Online Chess, it’s playing through the...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Newsletter
It’s getting lighter and lighter each day as the Earth edges away from the Winter Solstice, but it’s still pretty gray and that gets people down. It affects some people more than others – sometimes to the point of being a serious illness. But where...