by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
Vaccines work like this: We’re injected with controlled doses of disease-causing microbes, either dead or live, and our system creates antibodies to fight the disease. Those antibodies linger in our bloodstream so when we encounter the microbes later...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog
In the days before natural gas was piped into communities, gas lighting and heating used “manufactured gas” – made by burning and processing coal, and sometimes oil. Most communities had their own Manufactured Gas Plant, because it wasn’t...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog
Somebody online called my Monitor column this week, which laments the speed at which climate change is happening, the most depressing leaf-peeping article they’d ever seen. So Pete Biello and I brought it to NH Public Radio in our weekly GraniteGeek chat. Fall...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog
Seven Days, a statewide independent newspaper in Vermont, reports that even Green Mountain Power, which is about as crunchy-granola as a major electric utility gets, thinks it has enough large-scale wind power for the moment. (Story is here) The state’s largest...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog
Many – no, let’s be honest: most – traditional, ancient medicines are useless or feeble, long ago surpassed by scientific medicine. But sometimes the overused idea of “ancient wisdom” leads to something useful, and in those cases we...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog
Colleges, even the Ivy League superstars, love to seem cool as a lure to future students. So Dartmouth has got to be preening over the fact that the robotic football tackling dummy developed by the Thayer School of Engineering and Football Coach Buddy Teevens ’will...
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