by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter, Science-Technology
This post ran in 2016 when Wikipedia turned 15. Now that Wikipedia has turned 20, I figured I would run it again. This column concerns a number – 15, the number of years that Wikipedia will have existed when its birthday arrives Friday – but first let’s consider a...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it, a famous person once quipped, but that’s not entirely true: We measure the weather like crazy, and measurement is the first step to control. Every morning, for example, I check a rain gauge next...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2016 | Natural Sciences, Science-Technology
Massachusetts, as you may have heard, is freaking out over plans to put 150 rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the state’s biggest reservoir, yet here in New Hampshire we already have a Rattlesnake Island, on Lake Winnipesaukee. Plus we have Rattlesnake Hill...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The changing climate is going to affect a lot of things around us in the coming years, but perhaps nothing more than the most overlooked (quite literally) item in local government’s quiver of tools, the lowly road culvert. “Recent trends show that we are getting...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2016 | None, Politics-Election
The anti-establishment success of candidates in last week’s presidential primary has produced a lot of deep political analysis about voter sentiment, but it raises a question: Was this a sign that technology is disrupting yet another established industry – in this...
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