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...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Newsletter
Preliminary research results from the University of New Hampshire show that certain tree species in New Hampshire fared better than others at the height of the 2016 New England drought and were able to continue taking up water even when soils were very dry. “Climate...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
On Sunday, scientists, science advocates, and others will rally at Boston’s Copley Square to call for what orgaznies say is “increased vigilance to defend science against the barrage of attacks mounted by the Trump administration and Congress. The rally...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2017 | Newsletter
A number of years ago I got into family history, putting together documents and history from older family members, sticking it all into software (I use Kith and Kin, a Scottish firm) and discovering that my ancestral is really boring – all English, all the time....
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