by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2018 | Newsletter
Lunar eclipses, caused when the Earth’s shadow passes over the moon, are visible anywhere on Earth where it’s nighttime. Alas, it won’t be nighttime here for the next such eclipse, which with 1 hour 42 minutes 57 seconds of totality will be the...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
On most weeks (although not this one, due to scheduling issues) I talk with NHPR’s Peter Biello about my column in the Concord Monitor. Since the listening public can’t get enough of my mellifluous speaking voice, at The Monitor we’ve started an...
by David Brooks | Jul 12, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Remove that aluminum foil from your head and wrap it around your key fob, folks – that’ll protect it from being used by car thieves in a way that won’t be done by potato chip bags, as I found out last week . You want to know more? Check out the...
by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my column, which ran Tuesday July 10 in the Monitor. By coincidence (or, rather, because multiple reporters get story ideas from obvious phenomena like a wicked bad heat wave) a couple of major outlets ran similar analysis later in the week, including Inside...
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Sewalls Falls Recreation Area in north Concord is a lovely spot along the Merrimack River that includes some big, decaying industrial buildings, old cement walls and weird piles of rock in the river. It’s all the result of the area’s history as a pre-World...
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