by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
I attended 15 Ig Nobel prize awards in a row down at Harvard but have missed the last couple, including last night’s – so I’ll have to depend on news coverage to tell you how this annual celebration of scientific goofiness went: Guardian: A man stung...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2015 | Blog
The Globe reports that the owners of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on the coast south of Boston say they may have to shut because safety upgrades are too expensive. A succession of unplanned shutdowns of its reactor in recent years, and inspections that revealed...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
America may be changing its traveling habits – hipsters moving to cities so they can bicycle to work, and all that – but in public-transit-challenged New Hampshire, nothing much has changed in five years. According to the American Community Survey, a sort...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
Science Cafe New Hampshire had its first monthly discussion of the fall season last night in Nashua. the topic was fishing and fisheries, with marine fisheries experts from UNH Sea Grant and a Fish & Wildlife expert who’s based at the federal fish hatchery...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
I didn’t watch the presidential debate last night because I was at a more interesting event – Science Cafe NH started its fall season, more about which anon – but I understand that the two physicians who are running for the office waffled on a topic...
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