by David Brooks | Aug 1, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember when Vermont was listed as one of the places to go, to avoid climate change disasters? How things have changed. The state has been hit by back-to-back-to-back-to-back historic flooding. Tyler Jankoski of the NBC affiliate in Vermont pointed out that in 130...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
That’s fitting, I think; Harvard always seemed a little too establishment for the cleverest geek parody show around. Here’s the news from Marc Abrahams, the chief Ig himself: On Thursday night, September 12, 2024, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A manufacturing defect led to the July 13 failure of a turbine blade on the Vineyard Wind offshore energy project, turbine supplier GE Vernova said in an earnings call Wednesday, according to Workboat.com. The whole article is here. The break on turbine AW38 in the...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
When a global catastrophe is destroying entire towns overnight via fire, flood and storm, it shouldn’t be hard to convince people that we should take things seriously. If only. It has been 20 years since I began writing stories that warned about the alarming things...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The British newspaper the Guardian, which has a very international audience, has discovered that maple syrup isn’t collected via metal buckets hung on trees any more. That’s a little unfair: Their article today (here it is!) gushes that vacuum draw and...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the reason people freak out about invasive species – new, fast-spreading plants, bugs or beasts that suddenly show up in an ecosystem – is because they can cause other unexpected and often undesired changes. Case in point: The arrival of the spiny...
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