by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In a story Saturday I mentioned claims about global energy usage for bitcoin “mining” – using computers to churn through complicated math computations to create new bitcoin. I used the parallel that it requires more energy than all of Ireland, one of...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In all the years that Science Cafe New Hampshire has put on events, some dealing with controversial topics like climate change and vaccinations, only one time have we had to scold audience members for being obnoxious: When we talked about public water fluoridation....
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From Monitor columnist Ray Duckler, an ode to everybody’s least favorite part of Christmas: I hate the thing. Hate it more than the Grinch, more than the Abominable Snowman, more than those romantic, cheesy movies being shown on the Hallmark Channel this month....
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Lobstering has disappeared from Long Island Sound, and now, reports the Boston Globe, it’s gone from anywhere south of Cape Cod as the oceans warm and lobsters die off or move. This is no surprise – here’s a 2015 story from the N.Y. Post after the...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember how warm it was when the leaves started turning color? Your memory isn’t playing tricks on you: It broke a record. September, October and November, the period known as “meteorological autumn” to weather watchers, was the warmest on record in Concord – and by...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Newsletter
You need to have many different skills if you work with sewage. One of them is a skill for crafting euphemisms. “What I politely call ‘the stuff’ is the Achilles’ heel of all wastewater plants,” said Chip Chesley, who, as director of the blandly named General Services...
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