by David Brooks | Sep 12, 2016 | Blog
Makerspaces aren’t exactly going mainstream, but they are mainstream-ish, as you can see in a story in the Sunday Nashua Telegraph Adam Shrey (head of MakeIt Labs in Nashua) was invited by the Office of Science Technology Policy on behalf of the White House to...
by David Brooks | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog
Vox is a site that says its role is to “explain the news,” an attempt to make a virtue of necessity (it doesn’t hire enough reporters, so it has to wait for others to find news and then swoop in to claim a piece). Happily, its swooping is often quite...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog
Algae blooms turning ponds into a gloppy mess has become, distressingly, routine news. That’s why the EPA has launched a citizen-science project in which you can use your smartphone to document the problem – or, if you’re really interested, get a...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2016 | Blog
I’m doing a story about utility poles (which I, like you, still call “telephone poles” even though the electric company owns at least half of them) – and here’s the most entertaining quote I’ve heard so far: “After the first...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
Once I started reading transcripts of my weekly chats with NHPR’s Peter Biello, I sympathized much more with fumble-tongued politicians. Boy, do I sound dumb. You can see how dumb I sound here, as we discuss a new makerspace opening in a New Hampshire middle...
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