by David Brooks | Nov 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Had a great Science Cafe discussion Wednesday about engineered lumber, a.k.a. mass timber a.k.a. cross-laminated timber, and its present and future role in construction. Because I moderate these sessions, walking around with a microphone a la Phil Donohue, I...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is one of four states that numbers exits on interstates sequentially, instead of by mileage from the start of the road. I wrote about this issue in 2017, when Rhode Island made the switch: If the 15th exit is 39 miles from the border, should it be Exit...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s population has been growing slowly, or not at all, for the past decade or so. But Ken Johnson, the state’s demography guru, says that is slightly misleading. Here’s an email he sent me about his latest research: Of all the things...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Currier Museum in Manchester bought the Usonian Automatic house in that city, a rare example of the failed attempt by Frank Lloyd Wright to create cheap but good-looking homes that could be built by the homeowners. The two-bedroom, 1,400-sq.-ft home is made of a...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Addendum: Science Cafe NH in Concord for January will talk about alternative voting. We discussed it just a year but it looks like there’s still a ton of interest in the topic. Science Cafe takes December off.) My little ranked-choice-voting experiment with the...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
For each major tree-killing species of invasive bug, around half a dozen foreign insects live quietly in our forests, causing few noticeable problems. A new study may help scientists pick out the future tree killers from the crowd, and it has a surprising conclusion:...
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