by David Brooks | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog
My favorite stories involve explaining ordinary things that we hardly think about (like, say, snow fences). For several years I’ve wanted to write one about telephone – sorry, utility poles. I finally got around to it last week, and it was published on...
by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2016 | Blog
I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the point where things get dicey without all-wheel drive. For two decades, I have talked about setting up a snow fence to keep out the drifts, but I’ve never...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: Subscribers to the GraniteGeek weekly newsletter saw this story yesterday. You can subscribe for free here. You probably heard the news Wednesday about a federal/private initiative to develop an Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute in Manchester, with...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Newsletter
There’s no Granite Geek Newsletter next week – I’ll be snowshoeing and skiing North of the Notches and no way I’m going online – so here’s a little something to help tide you over: this is the Granite Geek column that will run in...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Newsletter
There’s a proposal to release genetically modified mice on the island of Nantucket to stop the spread of Lyme disease, reports Stat, a publication of the Boston Globe: Esvelt hopes to reduce the prevalence of Lyme disease by focusing on the white-footed mouse,...
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