by David Brooks | Oct 19, 2015 | Science-Technology
How many phone calls do you receive each night from pollsters? Yeah, me too. February can’t come soon enough. But even though I say “no thank you” through clenched teeth and hang up every time that #$%@! phone interrupts dinner, that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in...
by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2015 | Education
The new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire can analyze everything from a one-ton (NOTE: The weight of this hypothetical moose has been changed; see reader’s comment below) moose to microscopic pathogens, with animals from alpacas...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2015 | Economy-Business
New Hampshire’s energy picture got two surprising pieces of news Tuesday: The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on Boston’s South Shore plans to shut down in the next few years, and the state’s largest natural-gas plant changed ownership for $500 million. Both reflect the...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2015 | Science-Technology
I feel very safe in predicting that you, dear reader, have never thought much about screw threads. Although your life has been filled with screwing together pieces of wood, screwing bolts into nuts and hunting for screws on the floor after dropping them in the middle...
by David Brooks | Oct 6, 2015 | Environmental, Nature
Barry Rock is retired, so you might not pay much attention when he laments that something was better when he was young. When the topic is leaf-peeping, however, you absolutely should pay attention. “There was a time you could count on it like clockwork, that there...
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