by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2015 | Blog
Really interesting piece on NHPR today about one orchard’s reshaping of apple trees to improve harvest per acre, and also make things easier for the harvest to be partly mechanized. (Read or listen to the whole thing here – it’s worth clicking...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2015 | Blog
You can’t have too much Ig Nobel news, so let’s have some more. In response to an earlier post of mine lamenting the shortage of New Hampshire winners of Ig Nobel prizes, a lament that showed up on NHPR, I recieved an email from Dr. Thomas Michel, a...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2015 | Blog
Dave Solomon of the Union-Leader writes today in weekly energy column about a new report in which 100 New Hampshire business leaders urge action against climate change because they’re afraid of the hit that their businesses are going to absorb as weather gets...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
Speaking of the anonymous-websurfing tool Tor, as we were two posts ago, Bloomberg Business reports that Russian efforts to crack the system, which is popular with dissidents in authoritiative places like, for example, Russia, have failed: The Kremlin was willing to...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
NHPR uses me for occasional easy content, so it’s only fair that I use them for occasional easy blog posts. For example, this one – which urges you to check out my discussion with New Hampshire All Things Considered host Peter Biello about that most...
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