by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
The Chronicle for Higher Education reports that MIT is proposing to use its own free open online courses as a filter to sort through all the people who want to be in master’s programs there. (Story is here) Students who do well in a series of free online courses...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
Vaccines work like this: We’re injected with controlled doses of disease-causing microbes, either dead or live, and our system creates antibodies to fight the disease. Those antibodies linger in our bloodstream so when we encounter the microbes later...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
In the days before natural gas was piped into communities, gas lighting and heating used “manufactured gas” – made by burning and processing coal, and sometimes oil. Most communities had their own Manufactured Gas Plant, because it wasn’t...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog
Somebody online called my Monitor column this week, which laments the speed at which climate change is happening, the most depressing leaf-peeping article they’d ever seen. So Pete Biello and I brought it to NH Public Radio in our weekly GraniteGeek chat. Fall...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog
Seven Days, a statewide independent newspaper in Vermont, reports that even Green Mountain Power, which is about as crunchy-granola as a major electric utility gets, thinks it has enough large-scale wind power for the moment. (Story is here) The state’s largest...
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