by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Twitter has its problems, as is known by anybody who uses it or has seen it help destroy democratic institutions around the world, but it can be fun, too. There’s an ongoing thread called @realscientists that working scientists use to discuss their daily life,...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Aug. 21 solar eclipse cutting through the U.S. will miss New England by hundreds of miles, but the partial shading of the sun by the moon will be enough to reduce the region’s solar power by an amount equal to the output of Seabrook Station. ISO-New England, the...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2017 | Newsletter
The favorite thing I’ve ever done at somebody else’s college was visit the spider lab at Cornell University – two rooms full of spiders in various fish tanks (except for one that had escaped and built a web next to the refrigerator, where students...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The low price of natural gas is clobbering every other fuel for electric power plants – nuclear, coal, whathaveyou – and biomass is no exception (as Concord Steam found out). One of the groups being hit is loggers, who can no longer sell low-grade wood for...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2017 | Newsletter
A reader, Floyd Backes of New Ipswich, called me recently to tell me about something interesting that happened to him: He was driving his truck in hilly Temple, a town in southern New Hampshire, when the New Hampshire public radio signal at 89.1 FM turned into a...
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