by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Drones have made it easier for Dartmouth’s Jesse Casana to do interesting archaeology, including finding things long hidden at the Shaker Village site in Enfield, but there’s a part of him which is just a little bit sorry. “It feels like cheating a little,” admitted...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m writing this Thursday morning, so things may have changed by the time you read this – but something very weird is happening at Dartmouth, where three tenured professors in the psychology department who do brain research have been put on paid leave and...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The explanations that acupuncture gives for itself – chi and all that – collapse into a puddle of silliness when examined closely, and yet acupuncture does seem to sometimes accomplish useful things, especially reducing pain. Whether something is...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire doesn’t have any real caves, due to our geology, but we still have some hibernaculums – places where bats gather to over-winter. One is a mine in the North Country that has become well known to frustrated spelunkers. This fall, the New...
by David Brooks | Oct 24, 2017 | Newsletter
Being “free range” is a good thing if you’re a chicken, duck or other domestic fowl – unless you range onto the property of an irritated neighbor, that is. Under a proposed addition to state law, such trespass might make the bird’s owner liable for a fine. “A...
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