by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a couple of proposed bills in New Hampshire that would sharply limit phone and telecom companies from selling location data scarfed from the always-on corporate spy pretending to be a phone that we carry at all times. As NHPR notes (story is here)...
by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my site, so I get to choose the best Granite Geek posts/articles of 2019. Here they are, looking backwards through the year. (What about my favorite post of the decade? Many of the several thousand posts I’ve written over the past 10 years have...
by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2019 | Newsletter
All around the world there are programs to save samples, usually seeds, of many types of plants in hopes of preserving genetic diversity as human beings alter every aspect of the planet. One of these is starting up in Milton, N.H., but it doesn’t use seeds....
by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2019 | Newsletter
I’m taking much of this week off, as you should be doing, so all you’ll get is my annual geekify-something-about-Santa column: Climate change has made a lot of things more problematic as we realize their contribution to global heating, and that includes...
by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog
I am apparently not alone in thinking that advice to save pollinators (let your lawn grow) clashes with advice to avoid ticks around the house (cut the grass short because ticks don’t like heat and dryness). But a (admittedly, very preliminary) study says that...
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