by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Inventors who go on to build companies know that “first-mover advantage” can disappear in a heartbeat. Dean Kamen, who is best known nationally for the Segway fizzle but better known hereabouts for creating and lead DEKA, the R&D firm, and in the...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
In the most unlikely of places – a hilly park overlooking downtown Manchester with as much broken glass and graffiti as trees and boulders – a small part of the world’s ecological crisis is about to play out. If studies of samples from Mexico confirm what is...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Is lab-grown meat or similar foodstuff ever going to be a significant part of humanity’s diet? Maybe. Down the road near Boston, Tufts University is thinking about it. Tufts has been awarded $10 million over five years by the U.S. Department of...
by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When you’re an archaeologist, you know that there are rocks and then there are rocks. In his new book, Robert Goodby, a professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, talks about a few that his team uncovered in 2009. “We were in this quiet pine forest, dead...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2021 | Newsletter
University of New Hampshire scientists have received three grants totaling $1 million that will support research addressing questions of soil sustainability and, ultimately, food production in New Hampshire and beyond. The projects range from using state-of-the-art...
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