by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, holds at least as much promise as bitcoin does for changing business and finance (although actually taking advantage of that promise is proving trickier than expected). The state of Vermont has...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(This is my column from the June 26 Monitor – and boy, was it fun to report and write) This is the story about one of New Hampshire’s roadside historical markers – actually, two of them that say the same thing – and how they’re not quite accurate for interesting...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2017 | Newsletter
Motherboard has a great story (with no New Hampshire connection, sorry, but I liked it) concerning the way two Supreme Court justices differ on whether to capitalize the word “internet” (or “Internet”): These differing opinions arise from...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I got my pilot’s license many decades ago at a Tennessee airport so small that you had to buzz the runway once before landing, to scare off the deer, but I haven’t flown since Reagan was president. But I remain interested in what is known as general...
by David Brooks | Jun 27, 2017 | Newsletter
“A New Hampshire undergraduate has confirmed the presence of a fungus in the state that, over the past thirty years, has caused either extinction or massive decline in more than 200 species of frogs around the world.” That’s the alarming start of...
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