by David Brooks | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Seven months ago I wrote a column about the paradoxical arithmetic of mass testing for a rare disease, showing that even very accurate tests are wrong more often than we think. It was a fun intellectual exercise thrown together as a last-minute replacement for a...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
After nine years of success hosting science-y discussions in bars and restaurants in Concord and Nashua, Science Cafe New Hampshire was squelched by COVID-19 just like everybody else. We hope to get back to reality in the fall, but next week the Nashua crew is trying...
by David Brooks | May 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The historic Blake Cemetery in the North Country town of Stark, which sits atop a 40-foot bluff, is being undermined by the Upper Ammonoosuc River, with gravestones and human remains close to being washed away. On Friday, NH State Police found a human skull on the...
by David Brooks | May 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is now a “dark sky” sanctuary, the National Park Service announced today. The designation by the International Dark-Sky Association is the first of its kind along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., the second in...
by David Brooks | May 7, 2020 | Blog
Tupelo Music Hall, a small and well-respected concert venue in Derry, has an interesting idea for giving show in the COVID Era: They’re going to start hosting bands as if they were a drive-in movie theater. Sit by your car, watch the band on a stage, listen...
by David Brooks | May 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Over the last six weeks a non-trivial percentage of the stories that I, and ever other reporter, have covered can be classified as “X industry’s changes caused by COVID-19.” Here’s my latest: New Hampshire’s four slaughterhouses are doing...
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