by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Massachusetts’ demand for non-fossil-fuel sources of electricity is driving proposals to bring Quebec electricity down through NH, and it’s getting closer to producing the nation’s first offshore wind farm of real size. (Block Island in Rhode Island...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Newsletter
I love the whole Maker movement, although I must confess that I love it from afar. I haven’t got the pattern-matching ability, patience, visualization capability or fine motor skills to be a tinkerer. I break things without even trying; if I was a genius, I...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
You know the saying “garbage in, garbage out,” of course, but just as relevant is “misleading information in, misleading conclusion out.” I had fun in Sunday’s Monitor with a perfect example of this: It was one of those endless...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2017 | Newsletter
One of the most interesting and important things that has happened in the economy of New Hampshire, New England the U.S. (and much of the developed world) is that we no longer need to make more electricity in order to make more money. In pompous terms,...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Here is my Concord Monitor column this week – think I can take credit for a huge increase in VPN usage? Considering that my livelihood depends in part on draping myself with the mantle of geekiness, it’s a little embarrassing to admit that I don’t really...
by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2017 | Newsletter
There’s a Facebook page for the national March for Science, on April 22, Earth Day. (There’s a protest taking place in Concord that day – it has a Facebook page too.) On Wednesday, after seeing posts from researchers swapping esoteric slogans, I...