by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | Gov-Local, None
If we have to suffer through a crummy winter, it might as well be a record crummy winter – and it was. The National Weather Service says that Concord has its warmest ever “meteorological winter,” the period from December through February, since records were first kept...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
What if you could give your next child fluorescent hair? Using the topic of this month’s Science Cafe Concord, you may be able to, in the not-very-distant future. “It can lead to designer babies – a term that everybody has used, but the word ‘designer’ doesn’t always...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Vermont does some pretty weird stuff, as we all know, but recently it did something that was both weird and geeky: Studying whether to run its government using the technology behind bitcoin. The answer was “no,” but not because it was a silly question. National...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Mathematically speaking, “one man, one vote” sounds about as exciting as “1 = 1.” Yet it turns out that something so simple can produce a Nobel Prize in economics, not to mention a slew of graduate school statistics homework. “Our class spent three weeks just on...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
If you missed the inaugural Science Cafe Concord last week, take heart: ConcordTV will air a distilled version of the two-hour discussion on its public channel, Comcast Channel 22. The 28-minute broadcast version of the event will air Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30...
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