by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It is becoming increasingly clear that electric vehicles are the future of vehicles. But who’s going to fix them when they break down? The world’s greatest grease monkey (as a mechanical dunderhead I use that term with respect and admiration) can’t do much if your...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When hearing claims of technology breakthroughs from inventors, there are certain things that should raise your eyebrows: extreme claims yet lack of details how it works; talk of years of secret development; patents and government accountability are in the works;...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
This is interesting: “shared neural code” shows up in different people’s brains under certain circumstances and it;s part of how we instantly recognize familiar faces. Dartmouth News report on the research is here. I was going to try to give tl;dr...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The taxpayers of Concord may not realize it, but they own a lot of mushrooms. There’s ghost bolete in Marjorie Swope Park. Slippery Jacks in Morono Park. Dyer’s polypore in the Emerson Tract. And earthballs – lots of earthballs. Those are some of the fungi found...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The twice-yearly clock switheroo known as Daylight Saving Time is one of those aspects of life that many (most?) people don’t like but which continues nonetheless. It has been fiercely debated in the U.S. and around the world since it was first instituted during...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A former copper mine in Stafford Vermont is about to be declared cleaned up after 20 years and $90 million, reports the Valley News. (The story is here.) The 250-acre mining area was declared a Superfund site in 2001 — a designation preserved for the most polluted...
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