by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New England’s forests are not exactly the deep, dark jungle of adventure books and if you’re an outdoors person it’s easy to take them lightly. But a story about a lost horse shows that they can be surprisingly deadly. I recommend you read Ray...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is working to develop a biotech industry, focusing on medical technology, especially the design and manufacture of materials that can replace bits of our bodies – skin, bone, muscle. Its focus is the New Hampshire Center for Multiscale Modeling and...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When you’re looking at a whole bunch of numbers, as the Monitor does every week while tracking the status of COVID-19 in the state, it’s tempting to focus on the outliers. An example came last Thursday when the number of new hospitalizations, a data point that was...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody talks about cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions but it’s hard to say you’ve cut them unless you know what you’re emitting in the first place. That’s the thinking behind a just-released Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the city of...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
While it’s true that receiving an award from the president, having a statue in your honor put up in your hometown and being featured in the nation’s most prominent museum are impressive achievements, you haven’t really made it these days until you’re the subject of a...