by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This article ran in the Oct. 29 edition of the Concord Monitor; the conference happened Oct. 28. Of all the changes that solar power, wind power and related technologies have brought to the century-old business of making electricity, one of the more surprising is that...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Associated Press reports that the New Brunswick-based Atlantic Salmon Federation, which has been monitoring the Magaguadavic River in that province since 1992, says this is the first year since then that no wild salmon have returned to the river to spawn. This is...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re not the sort of person who gets worked up over the issue known as digital right to repair, Chad Johansen has an image that might change your mind. “Imagine if you changed the oil in your car and when your car notices that you did it yourself, (that) you...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Those three Dartmouth College professors told to stay off campus last week that I wondered about have been accused of sexual misconduct. Many people note that their research includes studies of sexual desire and attractiveness, so you have to wonder the connection...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When I was younger I tried writing science fiction stories, including one where astronauts find the true Platonic Solids on the back side of an asteroid and thus all of philosophy (great set-up, I think, but it had a really lame-o ending). Maybe I should try again:...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Drones have made it easier for Dartmouth’s Jesse Casana to do interesting archaeology, including finding things long hidden at the Shaker Village site in Enfield, but there’s a part of him which is just a little bit sorry. “It feels like cheating a little,” admitted...
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