by David Brooks | May 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
You probably remember seeing the Archimedes Screw in a high school “simple machines” lesson – it has been used for millennia to raise water short distances as part of irrigation systems. New England Hydropower Co. of Beverly, Mass., has just opened a...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord Steam, the company that has generated steam heat in the state’s capitol city for eight decades, shut down Wednesday at midnight due to financial and technical issues. I had a look back at its tumultuous history in the Sunday Monitor (you can read it...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: Over the past century, the Northeast has experienced an increase in the number of storms with extreme precipitation. A Dartmouth-led study finds that the increase in extreme Northeast storms occurred as an abrupt shift in 1996,...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
“Maine’s Constitution calls for candidates to be selected by plurality, in which the candidate with the most votes wins, even if the vote total is less than a majority.” That sentence is at the heart of this Portland Press-Herald story, which details how...
by David Brooks | May 23, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I am a Baby Boomer, which means I grew up with the Chevy Vega and Chevy Chevette, two of the all-time worst cars ever made, and I sneered at all GM models as they nose-dived during the ’80s and ’90s. The idea that I’d ever be excited about a new car...
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