by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
in the U.S. right now, dudes – I think that’s an appropriate term to use here – are more likely to pretend that COVID-19 isn’t a big problem than women are. That extremely non-surprising result, obvious to anybody who goes into any public area...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There are probably a lot of bugs invading your house right now that stink when you smash them. But that doesn’t mean they’re stinkbugs. They’re more likely to be western conifer seedbugs, or perhaps box elder bugs. And they might actually be a stinkbug – the damaging...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The explosion in white-tailed deer throughout the Northeast hasn’t been good for forests because those voracious so-and-so’s eat all the tree seedlings, altering the makeup of the woods (when they’re not eating all your hostas). Or so I’ve...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The right-to-repair movement, which says you should be allowed to tinker with things you’ve bought, hasn’t had much success in New Hampshire, or just about anywhere else. Most recently in the Granite State a “digital electronic product repair”...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s a hardly edited PR release from an art house movie theater near me. If you’ve never been to the Wilton Town Hall Theatre, you’ve missed a treat; it is an awesome place. A sci-fi adventure sometimes called the first feature film to depict...
by David Brooks | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog
Tomorrow”s election day for the roughly two-thirds of N.H. voters who haven’t cast a ballot yet, so I’m rerunning this item from a month ago. If you ever attended a Science Cafe New Hampshire session back in those glorious days when we could sit next...
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