by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Viruses are so simple that you can argue whether or not they’re alive – they’re basically a packet of DNA that injects itself into other living things. But it turns out that this DNA is more interesting than I thought, judging from a new paper based...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There are certain topics that I know will draw strong reader reaction whenever I touch them. They include a few obvious candidates – climate change, vaccination, public water fluoridation – but there’s one that might surprise you: Mountain lions. As...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A colleague just got back from a week in London and said Concordmonitor.com was the only New Hampshire newspaper website he could access online – the others were blocked as not being in compliance with the European Union’s new privacy regulations GDPR...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There are some interesting things happening at New Hampshire Public Radio these days, but in a departure from tradition, they draw as much inspiration from the success of House of Cards as from the legacy of Edward R. Murrow. “The on-demand world is out there – look...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m going to be having weekly conversations with Chris Ryan of WKXL, a talk-radio station that has its studio right on Main Street in Concord (It’s inside Concord Photo Service, 29 N. Main St.), similar to conversations I had for several years with NHPR. ...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2018 | Blog
From NH Fish and Game: Late summer and early fall is the time when eggs laid by New Hampshire turtles in the spring begin to hatch and future generations emerge from their upland nest chambers. With luck and excellent camouflage, these tiny hatchlings will make it to...
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