by David Brooks | Jun 30, 2016 | Blog
Yesterday morning I was walking around the blackened 14-acre site of a brush fire in Henniker, which is still smoldering more than 10 days after it was discovered, for a story about how dry it is … when it began to absolutely four. We were drenched in a...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog
US News – which, to be honest, I didn’t realize was still around – has an excellent article about the argument about whether to emphasize pure or applied mathematics when teaching it. In the OECD study, researchers looked carefully at survey...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog
A few years ago, people started encountering disgusting blooms of an invasive algae known as didymo – blooms so disgusting they were termed “rock snot,” making the topic irresistible to reporters. It turns out that the algae is actually native to the...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2016 | Blog
Science Cafe New Hampshire in Nashua is sponsoring a special evening on “the emerging smartphone app industry” in Nashua, along with NashuaHUB, a new incubator in the Gate City. Very cool.
by David Brooks | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog
New Hampshire has passed a law regulating online raid-hailing firms like Uber, but it’s not too tough: Uber is fine with it. “Most of the provisions in the so-called Uber bill mirror existing practices of Uber, which supported the legislation. The law bars...
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