by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2015 | Blog
And now, for a wet-blanket moment on your news feed: Christmas lights are fun and delightful, but a federal study says this country uses more electricity to power them than many countries do to power their entire economy, including El Salvador, Cambodia and Nepal....
by David Brooks | Dec 23, 2015 | Blog
By Holly Ramer, Associated Press: Everyone knows Rudolph has a red nose, but what about his eyes? Prompted by questions from his 4-year-old daughter, Dartmouth College anthropology professor Nathaniel Dominy recently wrote a scholarly paper on how the unique...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog
Solar power is generally a good thing, but that doesn’t mean some less-than-good attributes can’t go along for the ride – like false marketing. That’s what Vermont’s attorney general is claiming, anyway, as the online news site vtdigger...
by David Brooks | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog
Car batteries, those lead-acid beauties, are 12-volt and have been for my entire life. They changed from 6-volt during the first half-century of car design, as engines got more complicated and batteries got better; the higher voltage allowed various improvements,...
by David Brooks | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog
The legal situation for the crowdsourced taxi firm Uber in Concord is a little squishy, as it is in many parts of New Hampshire, but the service is slowly expanding anyway, reports the Concord Monitor: Local cab companies have only noticed a minimal Uber presence so...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2015 | Blog
Terrafugia, the Woburn, Mass. firm that wants to make a flying car (“roadable aircraft” is their preferred term) has gotten FAA approval to test fly a one-tenth-sized model of their next-generation effort. This is not their original design, now called the...
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