by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
So far as I can tell, there was no New Hampshire connection among any of the winners of the 2015 Ig Nobel awards. Throughout the 25 years this prestigious award has been given, the Granite State’s only Igs have been: Four NH doctors were among the 976 authors of...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
OK, I’m doing too many things at once … I linked to an Accu-Weather story about Northern Lights coming that is from last year! (As was pointed out by a couple of commenters.) Move along, nothing to see here.
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
I attended 15 Ig Nobel prize awards in a row down at Harvard but have missed the last couple, including last night’s – so I’ll have to depend on news coverage to tell you how this annual celebration of scientific goofiness went: Guardian: A man stung...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
The Globe reports that the owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on the coast south of Boston say they may have to shut because safety upgrades are too expensive. A succession of unplanned shutdowns of its reactor in recent years, and inspections that revealed...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
America may be changing its traveling habits – hipsters moving to cities so they can bicycle to work, and all that – but in public-transit-challenged New Hampshire, nothing much has changed in five years. According to the American Community Survey, a sort...
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