by David Brooks | May 16, 2016 | Blog
One of the oddest laws on the books in New Hampshire is one that makes it illegal to coast your car in neutral. I wrote about the law last year but the story is currently stuck in limbo due to the Monitor’s transition to a new computer system, so I can’t...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2016 | Blog
The two latest bits of news on the “robots are taking all the jobs” beat: The national burger joint Wendy’s says it will replace some workers with self-service kiosks at 6,000 of its eateries. A national law firm has “hired” an...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2016 | Blog
I hate that line about “those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it” because as far as I can tell, it’s people and cultures which can’t forget the past who keep repeating it, like Confederacy-loving parts of the American South, the...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2016 | Blog
By UNH News Service: A NASA rocket carrying instruments developed by scientists, engineers, and students from the University of New Hampshire’s Space Science Center has obtained the first-ever data of traveling through an elusive magnetic reconnection event. The...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2016 | Blog
It’s hard to think about Massive Online Open Courses without thinking of that “Mean Streets” scene in which most of us first heard the word “mook” (here’s the scene, if you missed it), but that’s what I had to do with Peter...
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