by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s a rare textbook that has sold over a million copies, has a Twitter account, has been a clue on Jeopardy!, and even made a cameo appearance in a popular Chinese soap opera. That distinction belongs to the best-selling Introduction to Algorithms,...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A century ago, when the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count was just getting started, the idea of asking random people to provide field data about wildlife was ridiculous. These days it’s almost overwhelming. Organizations from most state wildlife agencies to the...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Embarrassingly for somebody who’s an avid heat-pump fan, I heat my house with an oil-fired hot-air furnace. I also have a pellet stove in the living room, which I use as supplemental heat in winter evenings, when we tend to huddle in the living room anyway. This...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve long been fascinated by utility poles: They’re so ubiquitous we don’t notice them and yet they’re amazing: 40-foot-tall straight trees are grown by the millions (there are somewhere around 500,000 utility poles in New Hampshire alone, and...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The Monitor’s Teddy Rosenbluth has a story about the state’s chief medical examiner struggling with performing enough autopsies due to lack of pathologists amid the continuing fentanyl overdose surge. “The office has been trying to hire another...
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