by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Telemedicine has always seemed like an obvious use of the online world – Skyping for your health, so to speak. It’s fun to think of the technical possibilities – a nurse or doctor “examining” you from far away via remote-control robotics,...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
When I set up some online accounts for Granite Geek a few years ago it required a horizontal photo, so I put together the Granite Geek logo with one of my columns from the Concord Monitor. I had to choose a column that ran at the top of the page so it would show me...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Community access television – those hyper-local TV channels created as part of cable TV contracts – gets no respect but it is, in many ways, what the internet was before the online world became a soul-killing greedfest: Very focused on community, often...
by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A massive fire in 1947 burned much of Mount Desert Island, which is where Acadia National Park lies. A recent study finds that six decades later, those areas have a lot more black-legged ticks (a.k.a. deer ticks), which seems weird. Check the story about it in the...
by David Brooks | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Have you noticed all the dead ash trees around, now that the emerald ash borer has gotten well established in the state. Wonderful, isn’t it? Just the latest in a string of diseases, many consisting of fungus carried by boring beetles, that has hit eastern...
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