by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A debilitating, often fatal fungal disease has been discovered in wild North American porcupines in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, according to the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. UNH...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the most worrisome feedback mechanism in global warming is the release of methane – a very potent, if relatively short-lived, greenhouse gas – that’s trapped in arctic permafrost. As the poles warm the methane is released, leading to more...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
How do you train for a major airplane accident without actually having a major airplane accident? Put two school buses end to end, cover them with tarps and crank up a smoke machine, fill them with nursing students acting out various injuries (including some makeup...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You probably know about the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Manchester, but there’s a second one made of concrete blocks. It is a “Usonian Automatic,” a very rare example of a failed attempt by Wright to create cheap but good-looking homes on a sort of...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
My column in the Monitor today is the latest round of self-examination in which I face the unpleasant fact that a central tenant of my environmental attitude – “think globally, act locally” – has not only proven insufficient to tackle global...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I sometimes wonder when driving on the interstate – assuming I’m not zoning out in commuter-mode – who decides what gets put on which signs highway signs. Why does this one mention Milford and that one doesn’t? Why is this thing mentioned on a...