by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog
Great story in the Monitor today from Nick Reid, who takes a pretty routine zoning case about solar panels next to a church and reflects the whole debate over neighborhood character, renewable energy and how we make choices. Just go ahead and read it...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Abstract mathematics is as removed from grubby politics as you can get, but a fascinating summer course organized by a research mathematician at Tufts University is trying to bridge the gap. The five-day course set for August is titled “Geometry of...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The geekiest bill before the New Hampshire legislature this year has to be HB320, which would take the process of redistricting (redrawing boundaries for legislators and senators) away from humans and give it to optimization software in an attempt to avoid the...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are technical reasons many shooters like the P320 from Sig Sauer in Newington, which won an Army contract that could be worth half a billion dollars. It doesn’t have an external hammer like the P229R and the Beretta M9, the handgun that it replaces for the Army,...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
I was one of the people lucky enough to see the blooming corpse flower at Dartmouth College last September, although I showed up a little to late to get a good whiff of its pungent aroma (sort of like dead people mixed with dirty socks). As the BBC reports, this bloom...
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