by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Considering how absolute it sounds, “Live Free or Die” can be pretty squishy sometimes. For years the most confounding example of this paradox has been cannabis. New Hampshire loudly defends the right to expose our skulls on a motorcycle or stroll into the Gulp-N-Go...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Green Mountain Power has deployed what it says is a first-of-its kind vehicle-to-grid charger to reduce energy use on the grid during peak demand. A bi-directional Fermata electric vehicle charger was installed at its Colchester, Vt. office in October. The charger is...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Slowly rising sea levels are having many unpleasant effects, of which King Tides or Sunny Day Floods are one of the less dramatic but most telling. These terms describe when the sea at high tide goes into places where it didn’t used to go, without any storm or...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve been helping the local high school’s FIRST Robotics team for a decade, although not technically – they’ve got real engineers. I write and put together the kids’ parody musical as part of their fund-raising night, and they are much...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the poorly understood aspects of COVID-19 (one of many) is that it affects males more severely than females, if I may be binary when considering gender. This July study on the CDC page, for example, found that globally, “the overall COVID-19 case-fatality...
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