by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If you missed the Science Cafe in Concord about linguistics, you can watch it online at YouTube, right here.
by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Whether it’s good or bad to burn wood to create heat and/or electricity is a contentious topic that has been featured here more than once. It has risen to the fore again in New Hampshire because of the shutdown of some biomass electricity plants up north as part...
by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I am not a fan of “challenges” – you know, when a group or person says “I am issuing a challenge for you to do XYZ!” rather than saying “You should do XYZ because of these reasons”. Challenges strike me as a cheap way to make...
by David Brooks | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s a riddle for you: How can a medical test that is 99% accurate be wrong half the time, even when it is performed correctly? The answer: When the disease is rare. That doesn’t seem to make much sense – testing is even more important when a disease is rare, isn’t...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The United States seems to be finally waking up to the realization that offshore wind farms are a relatively painless, although not cheap, method of generating large-scale renewable energy. As NHPR reports, New Hampshire doesn’t want to be left out: New...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want to make sure that your snowplows don’t hit roadside reflector poles that are buried in snow, how do you mark them? If you’re in a tree-filled place like the White Mountains, why not use trees? Like, say, 4,000 of them? That’s what I wrote...