by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I will never use the phrase “common as dirt” again. My cliche vocabulary has been expanded. Common as silt loam? Sure. Common as sandy clay? Absolutely. Even common as sandy clay loam, although that’s a mouthful. These are terms I learned after stumbling across an...
by David Brooks | Oct 17, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A pilot program for curbside collection of hard-to-recycle items like power cords and coffee capsules has been launched in Vermont and may come to Concord someday, keeping them out of the trash and turning them back into useful material. But while it is an admirable...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
More than four years after New Hampshire announced that it would use $4.6 million from the “dieselgate” settlement to build public electric-vehicle charging stations, a contract has finally been signed to build one. The contract, announced Thursday, would install...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
From EurekaAlert: “They found that when it’s rained in recent decades, it’s rained more. In most regions, the intensity of the rainfall has shifted from lighter to more moderate and often heavy deluges. When it rained east of the Rocky Mountains in recent...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The most genius thing associated with grants from the MacArthur Fellows program was labeling them “genius grants,” thus guaranteeing coverage even in places that don’t have geek in the title. The 2022 group was announced yesterday. There were no New...
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