by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog
There are no wild mountain lions living in New Hampshire. Yes, you’re heard that they’re lurking in our woods, and maybe you’ve got a hunter friend who has a hunter friend who swears he’s seen one. But we’ve been looking for years, and...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog
Another full house at last night’s Science Cafe Concord, with at least 60 people crowding in The Draft Sports Bar to discuss self-driving cars. As moderator, walking around handing a microphone to people in the audience asking questions, I can’t take...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog
The world may not have the flying cars people expected when The Jetsons was our vision of the future, but we’re awfully close to a technology that in many ways seems more difficult to achieve: the self-driving car. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, in fact,...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Three interconnected gears can’t move, but three interconnected gears look cool, which is why graphics designers love to use them as a symbol for engineering – much to the frustration of engineers. I see it all the time – most recently in the above...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
If you could go back in time, would you go back 2,000 years or 200? That’s a trick question: you can’t go back in time. Alas! But you can come close by participating in the state’s annual archaeological field schools, helping excavations at a Native American site in...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Really interesting story in the Portland Press-Herald about some hippy types who went off the grid decades ago, and are finding the lifestyle harder to maintain as they hit their 70s. (The whole piece is here) Forget harvesting wood, even loading the wood stove...
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