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...
by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The Centers for Disease Control reports that in 2014, “The infant mortality rate decreased 2.3% to a historic low of 582.1 infant deaths per 100,000 live births.” That rate is relatively high for a rich country like the U.S. (Canada and the UK both have...
by David Brooks | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog
The ability of the technology known as CRISPR (actually CRISPR/Ca9, but who’s counting?) to edit genomes of living things grows more astonishing each day. There are lots of positives to this, notably relatively cheap and accessible gene therapy, but there are...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
The best sentence I’ve read in a while is: “Birds can cause insulator flashovers due to their long streams of stringy, conductive and semi-liquid excrement.” I just had to share.* I’m working on a follow-up to the a 13,000-customer outage this...
by David Brooks | Dec 7, 2015 | Blog
Resistance to antibiotics is a big problem, and it’s satisfying to blame others – like Big Agriculture, which doles out low doses to animals as a way to increase weight gain, despite the fact that it harms society. Resistances is scary and getting scarier:...
by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog
Green Mountain Power, the Vermont utility that has received national attention for its very Vermont-ish approach to producing and distributing electricity, has taken another interesting step: It is partnering with Tesla to offer home storage batteries for...
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