Michael Brooks
Freelance Writer at Freelance
writer/speaker, mostly about science/maths. Latest book: THE ART OF MORE (US) / THE MATHS THAT MADE US (UK). Co-host @EurekaPod (with @rickedwards1).
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1 week ago |
thethomasvilletimes.com | Michael Brooks
I was thinking lately about when phone calls were segregated by “local” and “long distance.” This segregation sometimes was strange, since I knew some who lived on different phone exchanges--when they talked, one paid a toll and the other didn’t. And then I remembered two incidents in churches when long distance charges became an issue. I served a church in […]
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1 week ago |
gulfcounty.news | Michael Brooks
It was the closest I ever came to my “big showbiz break,” as Rush Limbaugh called it. I got through to Kit Carson, EIB’s call screener (after about 50 tries!). It was my birthday, so I hoped it would be a good ploy to get online with Maha Rushie. I also said I’d like to ask him about a book he talked of writing called “The Back Nine.”Screener Kit said they were jammed for the afternoon, but he’d call the next day. Alas, it was not to be since I never got the callback, nor did Rush write the book.
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2 weeks ago |
yellowhammernews.com | Michael Brooks |Austen Shipley
The presidential campaign in 1976 was a bitter one, pitting the incumbent, Gerald R. Ford, against the challenger, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter. Ford was named vice president after the resignation of Spiro Agnew and became president after the resignation of Richard Nixon, making him our only unelected vice president and president. Within weeks of his swearing-in, Ford issued a controversial pardon for the former president.
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1 month ago |
gulfcounty.news | Michael Brooks
The presidential campaign in 1976 was a bitter one pitting the incumbent, Gerald R. Ford, against the challenger, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter. Ford was named vice president after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, and became president after the resignation of Richard Nixon, making him our only unelected vice president and president. Within weeks of his swearing-in, Ford issued a controversial pardon for the former president.
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1 month ago |
nature.com | Michael Brooks
With papers to write, grants to apply for and students to teach, cybersecurity can be a low priority for scientists. Until, that is, it all goes wrong. “Frankly, this is an awful time for science,” says Noam Ross, executive director of rOpenSci, a non-profit initiative in Berkeley, California, that provides open-source software tools for scientists. He should know.
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