by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
Motherboard has a startling piece about a well-known (in certain circles) dark web marketplace – one of a number of online sites where illegal material and services are bought and sold – has banned listings of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that has been...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
Vermont Public Radio has an excellent piece (right here) about the benefits and complications that solar power is bringing to that state, and to the New England grid as some states such as Vermont and Massachusetts charge on the solar bandwagon and others, including...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
A public makerspace is being opened in a couple weeks in the town of Amherst. Not so exciting, perhaps, except that its location is very unusual, if not unique: It’s in Amherst Middle School, making use of the art room/computer room/wood shop/etc. which sit...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
I saw a story in Bloomberg News today that an economic development bill in Massachusetts includes a provision to study whether Massachusetts should move to the Atlantic Standard Time zone without daylight savings – basically the equivalent of dropping the annual...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog
Stat, the Boston Globe’s health/biotech publication, has a distributing story about a continuing increase in pediatricians saying they have encountered parents who don’t want their kids to have vaccines – even though there has been a decline in the...
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