by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2015 | Research, Science-Technology
Is Narcan really the EpiPen for heroin addicts? That’s the analogy you’ll find circulating online, amid all the news about the life-saving antidote to heroin overdose. But as I found out from the state’s chief medical officer, we need to be very careful when dealing...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog
UPDATE: After I filed this, Ken Gallager contacted me and said he had forgotten that “Agiocochook Crag” was named in 2010 – it’s a small prominence near the Mt. Washington Auto Road. So I’ll have to tweak the story for print. Now that...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog
Self-driving cars may be good or bad (they’re a potential “threat multiplier” for terrorists, it seems) but at the moment they have one good effect: They’re more polite toward bicyclists and pedestrians than cars piloted by carbon-based life...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2015 | Blog
As a kid I remember learning that the US/Canada border is the longest undefended national border in the world, and I imagine this still holds true; I don’t think Russia and China have dropped their respective guards. So it’s kind of funny that one of the...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2015 | Blog
“It used to be that mussels were covering over half the space in the intertidal zone. More than 50 percent of the space and now they are covering typically less than 10 percent. They have gone from this species that basically defined the rocky coastline to being a...