by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2017 | Newsletter
A number of years ago I got into family history, putting together documents and history from older family members, sticking it all into software (I use Kith and Kin, a Scottish firm) and discovering that my ancestral is really boring – all English, all the time....
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Large anti-government protests in Boston are becoming more common than large celebrating-a-sports-championship rallies – and there will be another one on Sunday. It will have a geeky twist because it coincides with the huge American Association for the...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog
There’s something really cool about fishers, the large weasel-like predator that lives in northern woodlands. (Not “fisher cat” despite the baseball team’s name – they aren’t cats.) (Although they don’t eat fish, either; what...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It would be good for the planet but bad for New England’s grid if we shut down Merrimack Station, the 465-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Bow, N.H. We’re losing so many baseload power plants – coal-fired and nuclear – that it’s getting...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has eight engineers with the Department of Transportation who inspect our 3,846 bridges, each of them at least once every two years. How do they decide which ones to fix? Good question – which is why I looked into it in my column this week. You can...
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