by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog
As the Washington Post notes in this article, the International Energy Agency says that global economic growth has become “decoupled” from greenhouse gas emissions from the use of energy (their largest source) – that is, the economy grew but...
by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2016 | Blog
I’m doing an interview soon for my next column, concerning DNA analysis of bat poop. With bats, however, you get to call it “guano”, which sounds much more sophisticated. The above screenshot from the website of Jeff Foster’s lab at...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
According to AdRoll, an ad-tech company that counts 25,000 advertisers and reaches 1 billion users every quarter, New Hampshire and Maine have the second-lowest average “click-through” rate on online ads in the country. Only Utah is lower. The data, as I...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
Tomorrow night (March 16) Science Cafe Nashua will be talking about Zika, the mosquito-borne virus and related disease, and how New Hampshire should see this threat, plan for its possible arrival and what we should know about the way global changes are impacting...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
Ninety years ago today, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from a farm owned by a cousin near Worcester, Mass. (He was born in Worcester and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.) Today that field is the Pakachoag Golf Course, and I bet the jokes about...
by David Brooks | Mar 14, 2016 | Blog
Today, as you probably know, is the pi-est of pi days in American: 3.14.16, or pi rounded to four decimal points. I say in America because much of the world writes dates as day-month-year instead of month-day-year, so for them it’s 14.3.16 – not too...
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