by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
On Sunday my wife and I visited Morphy, the “corpse flower” blooming at Dartmouth College, joining the teeming hordes who couldn’t pass up the chance for a vegetative olfactory assault from the world’s largest flower. We arrived at 10 a.m.,...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
When the state recently issued population projections over the next 25 years, the Monitor newsroom noticed something odd: Allenstown, a community just east of Concord that we cover regularly, was projected to lose population for a decade and then grow again –...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
Because I am not an idiot I am a big fan of vaccines, one of the greatest creations of humanity – but that doesn’t mean they lack drawbacks. The flu vaccine is particularly iffy, because influenza is a multi-faceted disease that changes shape every year....
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
There’s a brilliantly written piece in the Monitor – it uses only great words – discussing the complexities of defining and responding to invasive species. The news hook (newsroom-speak for “why I wrote it at this moment”) is a debate in...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Next week has three events that should be of interest to Granite Geek fans. The fact that I’m involved in two of them is sheer coincidence. Monday, Oct. 3 – Red River Theater in Concord will show “Lo and Behold” a film by German director Werner...
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