by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog
I love winter and I love snow, but I hate wintery rain and you probably do, too. If it’s going to be cold and precipitating, it better be what TV weather folks love to call “the white stuff.” But increasingly it’s not, especially in New...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog
From NH Fish and Game: A helicopter capture crew has completed the work of collaring additional moose for the third year of a study being undertaken by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in partnership with the University of New Hampshire. Fish and Game moose...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The news that genetic modification of mosquitoes is being tested as a way to kill off the pests and stem the spread of diseases – an idea that is getting more attention because of the horrifying Zika virus – raises a question for us in New England: Why not use it to...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2016 | Politics-Election, Voters-Activism
Want another reason to be excited about today’s primary, beyond the whole helping-choose-the-leader-of-the-free-world thing? How about this: You can legally take a presidential ballot selfie for the first time! Last summer, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
Last month, I noted the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia with a column (here it is) devoted in part to an article about the so-called Feynmann point, a sextet of 9’s in a row that can be found 762 digits into the decimal expansion of pi. The six 9s are sometimes...
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