by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Unseasonably cold weather this year hurt New Hampshire’s maple syrup industry, which produced about 148,000 gallons of syrup, the smallest amount of syrup in five years. The data reflect another fact which might surprise people here: New Hampshire is not a major...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m old enough to have avoided smartphone addiction – my habits were set in stone before they were invented – but I’ve commented along with everybody else that these phones are altering homo sapiens before our very eyes, turning us into...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
My article about the new historical marker in New Hampshire honoring the creation of BASIC made it to the front page of Slashdot. Among the comments is the one above, which probably goes a bit too far! In case the JPG is hard to read, it says: After the Old Man of the...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The state’s three biggest electric utilities are proposing to create a dozen fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along interstates in New Hampshire, using money from the Volkswagen emissions-rigging settlement to create the state’s first such network open to...
by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire requires voters to fill in little circles on the ballot when voting for public office, sort of like answering questions on the SAT. (Assuming they still do that – it’s been a loooooong while since I took the SAT.) Then you run the paper...
by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In an entertaining but essentially meaningless bit of data mapping, a couple of folks at The Pudding, an online publication that looks at culture via visual data, assembled a map showing the “most Wikipedia-ed” person throughout the U.S. (here’s the...
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