by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog
When it comes to supplements, you and I are guinea pigs, unlike with real drugs, where lab rats (and sometimes guinea pigs) are the guinea pigs. Vox explains why in a good article (read it here) today: To remove a supplement from the market, the FDA first has to prove...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
It’s not entirely true, but perhaps not entirely false, to credit an indignant 8-year-old with public recognition of New Hampshire’s pivotal contribution to the video game industry. As his parents tell it, 8-year-old Alex Baer was taken to a talk in 2000 concerning...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
Albino animals don’t usually do well in the wild, because they’re easy to be spotted by prey and predators when it’s not snowy (there’s a reason that snowshoe hares change color as winter comes) and because melanin is important in the...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
So far as I can tell, there was no New Hampshire connection among any of the winners of the 2015 Ig Nobel awards. Throughout the 25 years this prestigious award has been given, the Granite State’s only Igs have been: Four NH doctors were among the 976 authors of...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
OK, I’m doing too many things at once … I linked to an Accu-Weather story about Northern Lights coming that is from last year! (As was pointed out by a couple of commenters.) Move along, nothing to see here.
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