by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
I can’t afford a Tesla and real-world electric cars don’t have the range to handle my embarrassingly long commute (shame on me) – until now, that is. Later this year General Motors will start selling the Bolt, the badly-named (too close to its Volt)...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
If you want a single poetic sentence that sums up the issues facing humanity and the planet, you could do a lot worse than the opening line of the first Whole Earth Catalog in 1968: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” A less poetic way to...
by David Brooks | Jan 7, 2016 | Blog
From NH Fish & Game: Residents in northern New Hampshire may spot a helicopter overhead in the coming weeks as approximately 45 moose cows and calves are collared for the third year of a six-year study of moose mortality and productivity. (You can see a video...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Why is it routine for people to gather in a bar and discuss the antics of padded, helmet-wearing pituitary giants but unusual for them to gather in a bar and discuss the science and engineering of things that affect our lives? That’s a puzzling question for us science...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2016 | Blog
You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about tiny houses – houses smaller than 1,000 square feet houses on individual foundations or trailers, usually built on site unlike manufactured housing and with more attention to energy efficiency and internal...
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