by David Brooks | May 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Terminology can have different meanings in different scientific disciplines … which is why I was very excited to read this Vermont Public Radio story about a freak storm in Rutland, Vt., that was partly caused by gravity waves. Gravity waves?! Cool! Alas, turns...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire state Senate on Thursday put the kibosh on one of the silliest (IMHO) ideas floating around these days: Improving our health and productivity by moving coastal New England states into Atlantic standard time, the zone used by Nova Scotia and most...
by David Brooks | May 11, 2017 | Newsletter
Massachusetts wants a 50-fold increase in the number of electric vehicles on its roads in eight years (from 6,000 to 300,000), to fight pollution both local and global. That’s both good and bad news for electric utilities – bad because it potentially...
by David Brooks | May 11, 2017 | Newsletter
If you’re a biologist who needs data about what happens inside a gunky, slimy place where most data-gathering systems don’t work, and your research budgets is not quite as big as yo’d wish, what do you do? Ask your 11-year-old, of course, and...
by David Brooks | May 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This story ran in the May 10, 2017 Concord Monitor: Internet providers in New Hampshire would have to alert customers before selling information about their online practices under a proposal that seeks to replicate at the state level internet privacy regulations that...
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