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By DAVID BROOKS
A couple of recent events have created a really horrifying thought for me: “Oh my gosh, what if the cranks were right and I was wrong?!?”In this case the cranks – my term, not theirs – are the people who say fluoride shouldn’t be added to public...
By DAVID BROOKS
Any big city exhibits aspects of William Gibson’s famous line that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed – but few take it as far as Beijing.(Yes, folks, this is an example of that fine journalistic tradition: the “What I did on...
By GEOFF FORESTER and ARIANNA MacNEILL
For Meg Roby, summer must include one key element.“I love bubbles,” the Concord children’s library technician said, “and we can’t have a summer program without bubbles.”Recently, around 25 kids showed up at the library’s main branch on Green Street to...
By DAVID BROOKS
Moving results from the research world into the real world can be a real challenge but I think the challenge is hardest when the research concerns people’s health.It’s one thing to show that a medicine or treatment or practice helps patients in a lab...
By DAVID BROOKS
Today’s insight into the scientific method is brought to you via a nondescript ocean dweller with the unlyrical name of lumpfish.The lumpfish, as I learned from a UNH press release, was the subject of recent research by Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild, a...
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