by David Brooks | Sep 7, 2016 | Blog
Vox is a site that says its role is to “explain the news,” an attempt to make a virtue of necessity (it doesn’t hire enough reporters, so it has to wait for others to find news and then swoop in to claim a piece). Happily, its swooping is often quite...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog
Algae blooms turning ponds into a gloppy mess has become, distressingly, routine news. That’s why the EPA has launched a citizen-science project in which you can use your smartphone to document the problem – or, if you’re really interested, get a...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2016 | Blog
I’m doing a story about utility poles (which I, like you, still call “telephone poles” even though the electric company owns at least half of them) – and here’s the most entertaining quote I’ve heard so far: “After the first...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
Once I started reading transcripts of my weekly chats with NHPR’s Peter Biello, I sympathized much more with fumble-tongued politicians. Boy, do I sound dumb. You can see how dumb I sound here, as we discuss a new makerspace opening in a New Hampshire middle...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog
Motherboard has a startling piece about a well-known (in certain circles) dark web marketplace – one of a number of online sites where illegal material and services are bought and sold – has banned listings of fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that has been...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
Vermont Public Radio has an excellent piece (right here) about the benefits and complications that solar power is bringing to that state, and to the New England grid as some states such as Vermont and Massachusetts charge on the solar bandwagon and others, including...
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