by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
If you take a close look at the winter electricity forecast from the folks who run New England’s power grid – that sounds like fun, doesn’t it? – you’ll see an interesting line amid all the numbers and verbiage: “Forecasts take into account the 1,663 megawatts in...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
In 1975, a bright young man named Joseph Arsenault patented a lug strap for a Concord company that made industrial products out of leather, especially power transmission belts for machinery – a fading technology even then in the face of direct-drive motors and...
by David Brooks | Nov 24, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Lawmakers may consider a bill next session that would prevent companies from requiring employees to get a flu shot, posing a potential problem for hospitals, which are graded by the federal government on this issue. “I’m not anti-vaccine,” said state Rep. John Burt, a...
by David Brooks | Nov 24, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
NHTI professor Nathan Strong knew that inviting a prominent opponent of vaccination to speak to a class about the science of vaccines would be a little controversial. That turned out to be a good prediction, as long as “a little” is translated as “very.” Maybe even...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Speaking as somebody who lived for two years in Southwest Virginia, I can testify that coal is filthy stuff. It’s filthy when it burns, but it’s also filthy to dig up, filthy to process, filthy to transport, and it leaves behind filth in the ground, the water, the air...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Confession is good for the soul, they say, so let me confess some apiary sins: Three times over the past decade, my family beehive has failed to survive the winter. That’s at least 100,000 insects who have gone to meet their maker under the Brooks family watch....
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