by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
They’ve rolled out a big solar canopy – solar panels over an outdoor parking lot – in Burlington, Vt., but what’s interesting is that the 156 kW system has two-sided panels. (Here’s an article describing that technology) From the press...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It sometimes seems that every chemical ever used in every product ever made turns out to be toxic, which we only realize after it has spread throughout the world and made people sick. Wouldn’t it be nice to know how toxic a chemical really is before we start using it?...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A combination of the aerial mapping using a system called LIDAR plus Internet-based crowd-sourcing may finally answer one of the most fascinating, if not very pressing, questions about the New Hampshire countryside: How many miles of stone walls do we have? “We want...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week, Maine’s best-known writer, Stephen King, got mad at the state’s biggest newspaper through Twitter because it said it would stop buying freelance reviews of Maine-based books for its book page, instead relying on the national book reviews by AP...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2019 | Newsletter
There’s a damning analysis in the latest Science magazine of Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs – which some people (including, gulp, me) through might reinvent higher education: We highlight three patterns emerging from data on MOOCs provided by...
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