by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
This week I wrote about the appeal of fireflies in my Monitor column – and talked about it with Peter Biello of NHPR – so I was delighted to see a story in the Guardian about how a rural cooperative in Mexico is using them as a lure to tourists, which...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2016 | Blog
Like many people, I’ve long thought that getting rid of anonymity is a way to improve online discourse. If people know that it’s actually me who is responding to somebody then I’m less likely to call them a dunderhead, or so the thinking goes. The...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
There’s a great bit of tech nostalgia in the Burlington Free-Press’s story today about why Vermont agencies haven’t started using blockchain for government documents, as is allowed under a unique state law: As recently as this year, the Secretary of...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog
I’ve heard a lot of news reports in the past few months that say firefly populations are crashing, like honeybees are, so I figured I’d check into it for my Monitor column. The answer, according to Tufts University biology professor Sarah Lewis...
by David Brooks | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
There’s an interesting quote in a Concord Monitor story today about people who are sure they have seen mountain lions in New Hampshire, from a woman responding to New Hampshire Fish & Game’s desire for actual evidence before they agree that animals...
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