by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
An annoying practice of companies that depend on subscriptions – including, I fear, the Concord Monitor – may have to end. That practice involves making it much easier to subscribe than to cancel subscription. At many newspapers like the Monitor, for...
by David Brooks | Nov 17, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New England would love a vaccine against Lyme disease. How about a vaccine against all tick-borne diseases – one that targets the tick itself, not the virus or pathogen it accidentally spits into our bloodstream? That’s the idea behind an mRNA vaccine...
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,...
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