by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
On the assumption that the Venn diagram of geeks and hikers has a lot of overlap, some news: New Hampshire’s 161-mile section of the Appalachian Trail saw 2.88 million “recreational visits” in 2025, according to estimates from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, making...
by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2026 | Newsletter
If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter and want to subscribe, add your email at the Granite Geek blog: granitegeek.concordmonitor.com Suggestions or comments? Drop me a line: dbrooks@cmonitor.com I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon (the newsie.social server) these...
by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2026 | Newsletter
Northern Woodland Magazine has a great, detailed explanation of the debate going on right now around the Connecticut Lakes of northern New Hampshire about how to balance income from logging, which pays you to cut down trees, vs. income from carbon capture programs,...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
For 35 years the satirical Ig Nobel awards have been a geeks’ delight in the Cambridge, Mass. No longer. This year’s event is moving to Zurich, Switzerland, due to fear of rampant human rights abuse by ICE and its supporters. “During the past year, it has...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the greatest information-sharing devices of the past century is about the disappear. But before I go into Boomer Lamentation Mode and bemoan the decline of modern society, there’s another side of the equation that I’ll address. The device in question is the...
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