by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
On Sunday, scientists, science advocates, and others will rally at Boston’s Copley Square to call for what orgaznies say is “increased vigilance to defend science against the barrage of attacks mounted by the Trump administration and Congress. The rally...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2017 | Blog
NOTE: If you subscribe to my newsletter, you saw this last week. So why not subscribe – right here! I recently saw “Hidden Figures,” the movie about the black women “computers” who helped the early NASA manned launches, and it was great....
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Large anti-government protests in Boston are becoming more common than large celebrating-a-sports-championship rallies – and there will be another one on Sunday. It will have a geeky twist because it coincides with the huge American Association for the...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog
There’s something really cool about fishers, the large weasel-like predator that lives in northern woodlands. (Not “fisher cat” despite the baseball team’s name – they aren’t cats.) (Although they don’t eat fish, either; what...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It would be good for the planet but bad for New England’s grid if we shut down Merrimack Station, the 465-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Bow, N.H. We’re losing so many baseload power plants – coal-fired and nuclear – that it’s getting...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has eight engineers with the Department of Transportation who inspect our 3,846 bridges, each of them at least once every two years. How do they decide which ones to fix? Good question – which is why I looked into it in my column this week. You can...
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