by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
Ever since the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle, burst out of the Midwest a decade ago, it has seemed obvious that it would wipe out all of North America’s ash trees, just as Dutch elm disease wiped out our elms. The expectation is that in a few decades the...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog
The desire for perfect-looking fruit and vegetables leads to as much as half of all American produce to be discarded, reports the Guardian: Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog
Cape Cod is vulnerable to rising water tables and, in some areas, groundwater inundation as a result of rising sea levels, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study. Groundwater inundation occurs when the water table reaches or exceeds land surface. The...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog
Nanocomp, the Merrimack (formerly Concord) firm that makes carbon nanotubes and turns them into yarn and fabric with interesting properties (strong, light, conducts electricity, absorbs some radio and microwave signals), is enjoying some attention because its fabric...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog
One of the staples of journalism is the “localizer” – taking a bigger story and telling it through local people. Yesterday I, like about 5,000 other reporters, did a localizer about Pokemon Go, the GPS-based smartphone game that had scores of people...
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