by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
A public makerspace is being opened in a couple weeks in the town of Amherst. Not so exciting, perhaps, except that its location is very unusual, if not unique: It’s in Amherst Middle School, making use of the art room/computer room/wood shop/etc. which sit...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog
I saw a story in Bloomberg News today that an economic development bill in Massachusetts includes a provision to study whether Massachusetts should move to the Atlantic Standard Time zone without daylight savings – basically the equivalent of dropping the annual...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog
Stat, the Boston Globe’s health/biotech publication, has a distributing story about a continuing increase in pediatricians saying they have encountered parents who don’t want their kids to have vaccines – even though there has been a decline in the...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog
New Hampshire has a lot of annoying and expensive and destructive invasive species, but at least we don’t have the feral pigs that are digging up the South. Or do we? The Monitor has a great story (read it here) about the return of a mounted wild-boar head to...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog
In the first half of 2016, renewable energy other than hydropower – meaning wind power, solar power (including distributed, rooftop stuff), geothermal and biomass – produced a whopping 9.2 percent of all U.S. electricity production. That’s not...
by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog
We don’t think about rabies much in this country, but it’s out there. The disease tends to pass through wild populations of animals in waves, mostly commonly affecting foxes, raccoons, skunks and bats. On the East Coast, as is shown by this CDC map,...
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