by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog
For years I’ve been reading Phil Plait, who became famous in 2002 for writing Bad Astronomy, a book debunking astronomy pseudoscience. He is entertaining and knowledgeable, a nice combination. So I was intrigued when two New Hampshire Public Radio...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog
An error handling flatworms in a gen-ed biology class (about as far from research as college gets) has turned into an interesting project to create animal models for a series of rare but debilitating diseases. A perfect example of “fortune favors the prepared...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
Stat, the health publication of the Boston Globe, reports that the percentage of drug trials which made it to the market was 11 percent last year, the highest percentage in a long time. More judicious use of resources resulted in higher quality product pipelines...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
Know any I-have-more-money-than-I-know-what-to-do-with-it people? Here’s the purchase for them: Ruggles Mine, which produced mica and other minerals for 160 years before being turned into a New England tourist attraction in 1963, is up for sale. The 235-acre...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
On June 10 and 11 of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, convened by Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.I.), on the subject of “Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change.” That’s the start of...
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