by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor whose work on image analysis and digital forensics has been the subject of plenty of well-deserved media reports over the years (including several from me, some as recently as last June), has been named a Fellow of the National...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Blog
Tonight (Dec. 8) will see the earliest sunset of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, even though the shortest day of the year won’t happen for almost two weeks. Equally confusing, the latest sunrise of the year won’t happen until almost two weeks after...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
The massive New Hampshire legislature (third-largest elected body in English-speaking world) is gearing up for its 2017 session, and part of that involves lawymakers filing LSRs (legislative service requests), which are sort of placeholders saying that they plan to...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
The USDA’s Forest Service has launched an intriguing data project that estimates – nay, gives an exact answer – to a question few of us have asked: How many trees does my state have, per person? For New Hampshire, the answer is 2,857. I wonder if...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
You know how you can spend your whole life never encountering something and then as soon as you learn about it, you immediately stumble across it again? Well, this week in an interview with the president of Eversource (the story is about regulation and financing,...
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