by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth New Service: A “molecular volume knob” that regulates electrical signals in the brain helps with learning and memory, according to a Dartmouth study. The molecular system controls the width of electrical signals that flow across synapses between...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re going to test a weather station to make sure it’ll work on Mount Everest, where do you go? How about Mount Washington. From an article (read it here) in AMC’s Outdoors magazine: They spent several hours off the side of the auto road, just...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
You can’t generate millions of watts of electricity would creating some problems – nothing’s perfect. Solar panels’ most obvious problem is area – they have to spread out to absorb enough photons. It’s easiest and cheapest to do...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2020 | Blog
(Note: Turns out this refers to a study from three years ago that I covered at the time. Oops.) If Northern New England homes switched from heating by burning fuel oil to burning wood pellets or chips made in the Northeast, they’d cut their greenhouse gas...
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