by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH takes December off, but when we return in January the Concord event will discuss electric cars. The prod for that topic is the arrival of the Chevrolet Bolt, the first mass-market electric car from a U.S. automaker (Tesla, while a wonder to behold,...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor whose work on image analysis and digital forensics has been the subject of plenty of well-deserved media reports over the years (including several from me, some as recently as last June), has been named a Fellow of the National...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog
Tonight (Dec. 8) will see the earliest sunset of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, even though the shortest day of the year won’t happen for almost two weeks. Equally confusing, the latest sunrise of the year won’t happen until almost two weeks after...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
You can’t say I avoid the tough issues: My Monitor column today ponders whether to put your windshield wipers up when you park and a storm coming, or leave them down. You can read it here and then tell me why I’m an idiot.
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
From the Associated Press: “Scientists are recognizing that a waterborne disease sickening tens of thousands of people each year is associated with warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico moving northward, partly due to climate change. The problem is extremely rare...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
Despite all the recent rain, Concord and many other New Hampshire communities are still asking people to conserve water, and two-thirds of the state is still listed as suffering from “severe drought,” although that’s a bit of an improvement from the “extreme drought”...
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