by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
Today’s Concord Monitor has a great piece in The Forum section recently about “shed hunters” – a term that refers to people who hunt for antlers that have been shed in the woods, as compared to people who try to find their garden shed in the...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2016 | Economy-Business, None
Segway, Bedford, N.H., has been assigned an ornamental design patent (D748,533) developed by four co-inventors for an ornamental design for a human transporter. The co-inventors are Brendan Collins, Manchester, N.H., Joseph A. Hoell Jr., Dunbarton, N.H., Michael...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2016 | None, Politics-Election
The anti-establishment success of candidates in last week’s presidential primary has produced a lot of deep political analysis about voter sentiment, but it raises a question: Was this a sign that technology is disrupting yet another established industry – in this...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog
At the risk of sounding decrepit and backward-looking, I love paper maps. I love online maps and smartphone mapping apps, of course, but there’s nothing like a large detailed paper map to give you a sense of place and context. I’m not alone in this, as...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2016 | Blog
I’ve got a story in the Monitor today about the future capacity auction, which is kind of boring as finance but also interesting as a reflection of the changing face of the electric grid – but the most interesting bit is probably this sentence: The annual...