by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
How do you train for a major airplane accident without actually having a major airplane accident? Put two school buses end to end, cover them with tarps and crank up a smoke machine, fill them with nursing students acting out various injuries (including some makeup...
by David Brooks | Sep 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You probably know about the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Manchester, but there’s a second one made of concrete blocks. It is a “Usonian Automatic,” a very rare example of a failed attempt by Wright to create cheap but good-looking homes on a sort of...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
My column in the Monitor today is the latest round of self-examination in which I face the unpleasant fact that a central tenant of my environmental attitude – “think globally, act locally” – has not only proven insufficient to tackle global...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I sometimes wonder when driving on the interstate – assuming I’m not zoning out in commuter-mode – who decides what gets put on which signs highway signs. Why does this one mention Milford and that one doesn’t? Why is this thing mentioned on a...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1999 at the iconic New Hampshire gaming arcade known as Funspot, a guy named Billy Mitchell achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Since then, his claim and other of his arcade records...
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