by David Brooks | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Legal documents are notoriously hard to read but that’s not because lawyers are bad writers – not entirely, anyway. Anybody who has ever tried to write a document with some legal heft knows that it’s hard to develop wording that conveys exactly what...
by David Brooks | Jun 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m looking at four data points each week (decline in new cases, low absolute number of new cases, high population testing, low positive rate of tests) to measure how New Hampshire is doing with the COVID-19 pandemic. You can see this week’s report here....
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As I write this (June 14th) sunrise has occurred at the earliest clock time of the year – 5:05:33 a.m. in Concord, a tiny bit later where I am, an hour south. But it’s not the longest day of the year, meaning the most hours of daylight – that...
by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s been a lot of grumbling in recent years from researchers about the business and information-sharing practices of the companies that publish scholarly journals: The basic complaint is that while scientists write the articles and do peer review for free,...
by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As far as I’m concerned, the big problem with the Internet of Things is security. With umpty-ump different companies fighting for attention with products that link you online, everybody’s going to concentrate on features and price and ignore security and...
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