by David Brooks | Jun 5, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a story (here) about a Lyme-based center that raises cubs that have lost their mothers “either due to being killed by firearms or being struck by vehicles” 137 of the American black bear yearlings being released this spring back into...
by David Brooks | Jun 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Interesting Scientific American article (here) about biometric study of people in cities, with this conclusion: Our research group at Tufts University has conducted a number of facial analysis and eye-tracking studies, and sifting through these data we see that people...
by David Brooks | Jun 1, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The nation’s first real right-to-repair law – a pretty limited one covering instructions for cars, but it’s a start – went into effect in Massachusetts on Thursday. The Boston Globe reports (full story here): The opposition arguments (safety!...
by David Brooks | May 31, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
From the University of Glasgow: The majority of fish populations in the sea are responding to global warming by relocating towards colder waters nearer the north and south poles, according to the latest research on the impact of climate change on our oceans. Analyzing...
by David Brooks | May 31, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The USDA has given the green light to a vaccine against the bacteria that causes Lyme: The vaccine isn’t a rodent-sized injection, which wouldn’t work for targeting large populations quickly. Instead, it’s coated onto edible, nutrition-free pellets that mice gobble...
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