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...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog
New Hampshire has a lot of annoying and expensive and destructive invasive species, but at least we don’t have the feral pigs that are digging up the South. Or do we? The Monitor has a great story (read it here) about the return of a mounted wild-boar head to...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog
In the first half of 2016, renewable energy other than hydropower – meaning wind power, solar power (including distributed, rooftop stuff), geothermal and biomass – produced a whopping 9.2 percent of all U.S. electricity production. That’s not...
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