by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I am ashamed that when writing a story about the Concord street department having reported 4,000 potholes in the city, I didn’t think to include a “Day in the Life” parody. (slaps forehead!) Better late than never: 4,000 potholes in Concord New...
by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The geek canonization (so to speak) of Ralph Baer continues to gather steam. Officials in Manchester are scheduled to hold a dedication ceremony on May 10 of what will become, unofficially at least, Ralph Baer Plaza in Arms Park, on the bank of the Merrimack River...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Tiny Chesterfield, home to 3,600 people between Keene, N.H., and Brattleboro, Vt., appears to be the first town in the state to take advantage of a new state law allowing municipal broadband internet. The Brattleboro Reformer had this story in advance of the town...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a story in today’s Monitor about potholes and mud season – pretty typical March stuff for New Hampshire. But I got a surprise while reporting it: The city of Concord counts potholes, and last year at this time they had twice as many as this year...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the pleasures of being a (very) minor public figure associated with science is that sometimes I hear from people who have “disproved” major findings. In my earlier, more self-assured days I called these folks “cranks” – as in...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Templeton Prize is one of the major prizes in science – $1.4 million in prize money helps – but it’s a bit of an oddball because it emphasizes the non-quantifiable part of human knowledge. It was awarded today to Marcelo Gleiser, a cosmologist at...
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