by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2015 | Blog
This is a sidebar to a feature package I wrote for Sunday’s Monitor about winter solstice celebration at America’s Stonehenge – I thought it would be the piece of most interest to GraniteGeek readers: Fans of America’s Stonehenge will tell you that...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
My weekly chat with Peter Biello at NHPR concerned, as it usually does, my Monitor column – in this case, about pricing for energy efficiency and how putting a dollar figure on the nega-watt is good for megawatts. You can listen (or read the transcript, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
Printed telephone directories are, for obvious reasons, on the way out. Yellow pages and business listings still make money but white pages – residential listings – don’t. FairPoint, the phone company in New Hampshire, announced last spring that it...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
Today, as you probably didn’t know, will the earliest sunset of winter. Tomorrow’s sunset will be a teeny bit later than today’s, which is weird, because winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, doesn’t arrive for two weeks. So what...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2015 | Blog
This week I wrote a story about animals and birds causing power outages by interfering with equipment and power lines. Near the end I mentioned a fact that I learned while researching it: Bird poop, which because of bird anatomy is usually a mix of urine and feces,...
by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The second edition of Outside/In, a new natural-world podcast from NHPR, has hit the airwaves (if that’s the right term for a non-broadcasted show). It is sort of like an extended variant of NHPR’s long-running Something Wild segment, but with field...
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