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 | Aug 25, 2015 | Science-Technology, Scientific Exploration
Yes, there was a hole, and yes, you could sink into it. But from a geological perspective, the traffic-snarling chasm that opened up on Interstate 93 in Concord last week wasn’t really a sinkhole. Texas may have sinkholes and Florida may have sinkholes – sometimes the...