by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I do not write software, but I am fascinated and/or perplexed about the weirdest claim I have encountered in a long time: This survey that says programmers who use tabs to indent their code make less money than coders who use spaces: Indeed, the median developer who...
by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In the 2004-2015 decade, N.H. reduced the total amount of electricity it produced through burning coal by 77 percent, the 8th-biggest decline of any state, according to federal data. That’s one of the reasons it is so hard to determine how much...
by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the big questions regarding energy in New Hampshire at the moment is the pending sale of more than a dozen power plants still owned by our utility, Eversource, including a large coal-fired plant in the town of Bow, just south of Concord. That power plant came...
by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Great discussion last night at Science Cafe Concord about “citizen science” projects. As promised, here are more details about various possibilities discussed at the session (which you can see on Concord TV’s page – the taping will be edited...
by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2017 | Newsletter
Do you eat too much? Of course you do. Americans have a serious habit of overeating, leading to a nationwide obesity epidemic. Despite the evidence, many of us believe we eat healthy food, never realizing how much we are stuffing our faces throughout the day. Much of...
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