by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
I still had 16 inches of snow in my yard last week (it’s mostly gone now) so it seems like it was a cold, harsh winter. Not so, reports Scientific American in this story. Nowhere in the U.S. had a record cold winter this year. Nowhere even came close.What did...
by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
On the assumption that the Venn diagram of geeks and hikers has a lot of overlap, some news: New Hampshire’s 161-mile section of the Appalachian Trail saw 2.88 million “recreational visits” in 2025, according to estimates from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, making...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
For 35 years the satirical Ig Nobel awards have been a geeks’ delight in the Cambridge, Mass. No longer. This year’s event is moving to Zurich, Switzerland, due to fear of rampant human rights abuse by ICE and its supporters. “During the past year, it has...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the greatest information-sharing devices of the past century is about the disappear. But before I go into Boomer Lamentation Mode and bemoan the decline of modern society, there’s another side of the equation that I’ll address. The device in question is the...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
The Boston chapter of the Axios news network has a quickie piece about Boston lamentation that they don’t do as good a job removing snow as they do in Montreal. The article is here. There is some discussion about policy and technology, but the key point is this:...
by David Brooks | Mar 9, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name. By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire in the week through March 8. Ionospheric Delay Measurement for Reduced GPS Power...