by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Speaking as somebody who lived for two years in Southwest Virginia, I can testify that coal is filthy stuff. It’s filthy when it burns, but it’s also filthy to dig up, filthy to process, filthy to transport, and it leaves behind filth in the ground, the water, the air...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
If you’ve ever watched TV in a noisy bar and appreciated the closed captioning, you were benefiting from a technology developed to help people with disabilities. That is exactly what will happen if more technology to aid people with disabilities appears in the...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Confession is good for the soul, they say, so let me confess some apiary sins: Three times over the past decade, my family beehive has failed to survive the winter. That’s at least 100,000 insects who have gone to meet their maker under the Brooks family watch....
by David Brooks | Oct 27, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Conferences about climate change tend to focus on atmospheric molecules and energy density, but an interestingly different conversation this past weekend in Hampton centered on building codes and cigarettes. Cigarettes? I’ll get to that in a minute. The conference was...
by David Brooks | Oct 19, 2015 | Science-Technology
How many phone calls do you receive each night from pollsters? Yeah, me too. February can’t come soon enough. But even though I say “no thank you” through clenched teeth and hang up every time that #$%@! phone interrupts dinner, that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Science-Technology
I feel very safe in predicting that you, dear reader, have never thought much about screw threads. Although your life has been filled with screwing together pieces of wood, screwing bolts into nuts and hunting for screws on the floor after dropping them in the middle...
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