by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
Small-town museums are, let’s be honest, usually cute and amusing, but not much more. And I speak as a guy who helps run my small town’s history museum. That’s why I was so delighted by the New Hampshire Telephone Museum in tiny Warner, which is an...
by David Brooks | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
I don’t know about you, but my garden went bonkers this year, especially the cherry tomatoes. I almost go sick of the darn things, there were so many of them for so long. But I didn’t get sick of them, because cherry tomatoes are one of the reasons that...
by David Brooks | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
Alan Shepard might have been the first American in space (not in orbit – he rode a sub-orbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight on May 5, 1961) and was one of just 12 people who have walked on the moon, but because he’s a New Hampshire boy, growing up in East...
by David Brooks | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
Remember when “geek” meant a mutant who worked for a circus and bit the heads off chickens? No, I don’t either, but I do remember when it was a seldom-used word that was mildly insulting – not as bad as “nerd” (or...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2015 | Blog
A new research paper analyzing 35 surveys from 2010 to 2015 about climate change has found some obvious correlations with political beliefs (liberals are much more likely to agree that it’s a human-caused problem* than are conservatives) and education (the more...
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