by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The second edition of Outside/In, a new natural-world podcast from NHPR, has hit the airwaves (if that’s the right term for a non-broadcasted show). It is sort of like an extended variant of NHPR’s long-running Something Wild segment, but with field...
by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The Centers for Disease Control reports that in 2014, “The infant mortality rate decreased 2.3% to a historic low of 582.1 infant deaths per 100,000 live births.” That rate is relatively high for a rich country like the U.S. (Canada and the UK both have...
by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The ability of the technology known as CRISPR (actually CRISPR/Ca9, but who’s counting?) to edit genomes of living things grows more astonishing each day. There are lots of positives to this, notably relatively cheap and accessible gene therapy, but there are...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Energy efficiency and demand response are paid for via something called the Forward Capacity Market, an auction run by ISO-New England at which generators and others bid on electricity production three years from now. Basically, ISO-New England predicts how much...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
If you take a close look at the winter electricity forecast from the folks who run New England’s power grid – that sounds like fun, doesn’t it? – you’ll see an interesting line amid all the numbers and verbiage: “Forecasts take into account the 1,663 megawatts in...
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