by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2016 | Blog
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle explosion, which was a sad and painful moment for Americans, for space fans, and for Christa McAuliffe’s home town of Concord. The Concord Monitor has a package of stories about that day and what has...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
The most surprising, to me, part of my story today about a law proposing GMO labeling was the final bit: The most unusual argument in favor of the bill came from Rabbi Robin Nafshi of Temple Beth Jacob in Concord, who discussed concern that eating genetically modified...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
Chess : checkers :: Go : chess That statement (“chess is to checkers as Go is to chess”) is a succinct, if arrogant, expression of the belief held by many that the east Asian board game of Go is far deeper than the western board game of chess. (I’m...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
The Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife wants to establish a breeding population of timber rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, to help the endangered species. The Globe reports that some locals are...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2016 | Blog
ISO-New England, the folks who run the power grid for the six-state region, issued a report yesterday about the state of the system. It emphasized the growing importance of natural gas, and noted that in winter, coal and oil are making something of a rebound as...
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