by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
Like many people, I’ve long thought that getting rid of anonymity is a way to improve online discourse. If people know that it’s actually me who is responding to somebody then I’m less likely to call them a dunderhead, or so the thinking goes. The...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
There’s a great bit of tech nostalgia in the Burlington Free-Press’s story today about why Vermont agencies haven’t started using blockchain for government documents, as is allowed under a unique state law: As recently as this year, the Secretary of...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
I’ve heard a lot of news reports in the past few months that say firefly populations are crashing, like honeybees are, so I figured I’d check into it for my Monitor column. The answer, according to Tufts University biology professor Sarah Lewis...
by David Brooks | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
There’s an interesting quote in a Concord Monitor story today about people who are sure they have seen mountain lions in New Hampshire, from a woman responding to New Hampshire Fish & Game’s desire for actual evidence before they agree that animals...
by David Brooks | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
By UNH News Service: Seeing cows graze in a forest may be an uncommon site in New England but at the Organic Dairy Research Farm at the University of New Hampshire, heifers soon will be dining among the trees. Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station...