by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2015 | Curiosities, Lifestyle
Fans of America’s Stonehenge will tell you that the site predates Europeans by hundreds, maybe thousands of years, but unfortunately there’s no evidence to back them up. It would be cool to think the chambers and “sacrifice stone” and other structures were assembled...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
My weekly chat with Peter Biello at NHPR concerned, as it usually does, my Monitor column – in this case, about pricing for energy efficiency and how putting a dollar figure on the nega-watt is good for megawatts. You can listen (or read the transcript, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
Printed telephone directories are, for obvious reasons, on the way out. Yellow pages and business listings still make money but white pages – residential listings – don’t. FairPoint, the phone company in New Hampshire, announced last spring that it...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
Today, as you probably didn’t know, will the earliest sunset of winter. Tomorrow’s sunset will be a teeny bit later than today’s, which is weird, because winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, doesn’t arrive for two weeks. So what...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
This week I wrote a story about animals and birds causing power outages by interfering with equipment and power lines. Near the end I mentioned a fact that I learned while researching it: Bird poop, which because of bird anatomy is usually a mix of urine and feces,...
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