by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers at UNH are “analyzing more 250,000 wildlife images recorded by trail cameras at more than 145 research sites throughout southeastern and central New Hampshire” to improve methods of monitoring wildlife. (Details here.) Unless you’re a...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1970, in a series of arguments that have become gospel in the business community, economist Milton Friedman argued that companies should focus on providing profits to their investors to the exclusion of everything else. All good things will follow, he said, as long...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Recently I took myself to task for repeating a story that was too good to check – that the original area codes were assigned by population to minimize time spent on the network dialing. Here’s the story, if you missed it. But maybe I wasn’t so wrong,...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When I wrote about a “revolutionary” energy-making machine being developed in Massachusetts that seems to conveniently sidestep certain laws of physics (here’s the story from last week) one reader mused about 1970s memories of a New Hampshire man who...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: This story ran in Monday’s Monitor. A reader posted an comment below it online about the legislature’s decision a decade-ish ago to reject federal funding to study this idea, saying that the GOP legislators who made the move wanted to widen I-93...
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