by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Science and engineering are full of acronyms, of course. Some are good and some are not. This one is good: Their idea, SHREWs — Strategic Highly-compliant Roving Explorers of other Worlds — is inspired by the rodents of the same name, which link up mouth to tail in a...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Since I work for the Concord Monitor, this story is Concord-specific. But I bet the situation is the same for your city. Looking back on 2020, it’s clear that people in Concord did three things when the pandemic hit: Threw stuff out, watered the lawn and wiped down...
by David Brooks | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. population growth rate last year was the lowest in 100 years. From 2010 to 2019, rural America lost population for the first time in history, and COVID-19 is likely to further exacerbate this trend, according to a researcher with the NH Agricultural...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As a guy with “geek” in the name of his newspaper column I’m supposed to be techy-savvy, so it’s embarrassing to admit how confused I got when signing up for a COVID-19 vaccine this week. Perhaps my experience will help those who sign up down the road. The big problem...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Eric Fossum, Dartmouth’s John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies, is one of a few recipients of the 72nd Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards. The honor, a first for Dartmouth engineering faculty, comes from the National Academy of...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Twice a week a courier picks up a bucket of pretty unsavory stuff from the Concord wastewater plant and drives it a half-hour west to the huge Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center complex in Lebanon, where it joins what is basically a big wet-lab experiment. The goal of...