by David Brooks | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
Until this week, I have never owned a car with 200,000 miles on the odometer despite our family policy of driving cars into the ground. We have owned lots of Subarus, which tend to rust out somewhere around 175,000, so congratulations to Honda for making a Civic that...
by David Brooks | Nov 11, 2015 | Blog
One of the skills that seems to have deteriorated with age, for me at least, is wayfinding. I used to have a quite good internal compass and could wander through strange cities without getting lost. These days, however, I get turned around pretty easily, and it takes...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog
A giant Danish energy firm with a name to delight all 13-year-olds (DONG Energy) wants to build a huge wind farm – 100 turbines, as much as 1 gigawatt of output – 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The U.S. is ridiculously behind in offshore wind,...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2015 | Blog
A new law in Vermont is encouraging people to think about “green burials,” which have no casket, embalming fluid or even cemetery, says the Burlington Free Press: A state law passed this year releases public cemeteries from constraints such as fencing and...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Speaking as somebody who lived for two years in Southwest Virginia, I can testify that coal is filthy stuff. It’s filthy when it burns, but it’s also filthy to dig up, filthy to process, filthy to transport, and it leaves behind filth in the ground, the water, the air...
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