by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1999 at the iconic New Hampshire gaming arcade known as Funspot, a guy named Billy Mitchell achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Since then, his claim and other of his arcade records...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I first used the words “climate change” in a story in the late 1990s and it has been a regular part of my reporting since. How could it not? It’s a great story, and journalists love great stories. And it has only become a better* story over time, as...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have discovered a native relative of quinoa with high disease resistance that may be an ideal breeding partner to re-domesticate the grain in Northern New England. A...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Rainbows are really weird, when you stop and think about it. To a certain extent they don’t even exist – any given rainbow is a mass optical illusion rather than an actual thing. But they are fascinating. Even the sky around them is fascinating: Lighter on...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Ig Nobel Prizes are, as you probably know, one of the cultural highlights of Western Civilization. Held at Harvard University in the stately, majestic, awesome (choose your adjective) Sanders Theater, the ceremony mixes the goofy and the intellectual in a spoof of...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I am of two minds about AirBNB. Like many of these so-called “sharing economy” startups it is great for customers – travelers, in this case – but can have drawbacks for the communities and workers who make it possible. In tourist-heavy areas,...
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