by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog
The U.S. is way behind in developing offshore wind. We’ve got lots of good resources in relatively shallow water (especially on the East Coast, where the continental shelf goes out a long way) but financial, power-grid and political problems have stalled things,...
by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2016 | Blog
Dartmouth has a new, more powerful fMRI machines (3 Tesla, as in magnetic field strength, not cars) for studying the workings of the brain and personalities, as I discuss in today’s GraniteGeek column in the Concord Monitor. But being knowledgeable, you ask:...
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...
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