by David Brooks | Sep 7, 2015 | Blog
Maine’s blueberry harvest attracted more than 5,000 migrant farmers 10 years ago and it’s down to about 1,500 today, said David Yarborough, a University of Maine professor of horticulture. That quote comes from this AP story about increasing mechanization...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2015 | Blog
Simple shapes are easier to insulate, so a simply-shaped house (think Quaker rather than Gehry) will have less heat loss. That’s what I learned, plus the term “thermal bridge,” which is a place like a corner where you can’t shove in insulation,...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog
The Royal Burgers Zoo in The Netherland used a drone to make cool video of their world-famous chimpanzee enclosure when one of the apes reacted like a number of humans have done. Watch the video right here.
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2015 | Blog
CNBC reports that “Electricity generated by US wind farms fell 6 per cent in the first half of the year even as the nation expanded wind generation capacity by 9 per cent, Energy Information Administration records show. The reason was some of the softest air...
by David Brooks | Sep 3, 2015 | Blog
The topic of vaccination has become so politicized that I find myself hesitating to spread any bad news about vaccines, for fear the anti-vax crowd will blow it out of proportion. Shame on me for thinking that way: If I support evidence-based medicine – as I do,...
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