by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
f there’s any single thing that marks somebody as a geek in the original sense, it’s space travel. Computers were once the sign of true geekdom but now everybody is into computers at some level. Excitement about getting beyond Earth’s gravity is now the defining geek...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A stretch of tangled, mostly invasive plants that has taken over the Merrimack River riverbank by Fort Eddy Plaza in Concord will be mowed down this winter as the first step of possible eradication, and with any luck, the owners of nearby land will join in. “I’m...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Bristol, a 3,000-person town halfway between the Lakes Region and Hanover, is connecting many of its homes to a fiber network, using money from the pandemic’s CARES Act – the Union-Leader has a story here. I wrote about its early stirrings in 2018....
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter, Science-Technology
This post ran in 2016 when Wikipedia turned 15. Now that Wikipedia has turned 20, I figured I would run it again. This column concerns a number – 15, the number of years that Wikipedia will have existed when its birthday arrives Friday – but first let’s consider a...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Jan. 15, 2021 is the 20th anniversary of wikipeiia, so I’m resurrecting this column from 2018. As you probably know, 4.78 percent of Concord’s total surface area is made up of water. Wait – you didn’t know that? Then you haven’t read Wikipedia in the past 15...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
Sorry for the confusion but I have now undone an overly hasty correction. I “corrected” myself before double-checking, which was stupid. My original posting was correct – we are getting 18,000 DOSES of vaccine a week, not 18,000 vials of vaccine...
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