by David Brooks | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When more than 300 health care providers showed up in Concord on Wednesday for a conference about antibiotic resistance, they encountered something unexpected: a pop quiz. Standing at the front podium, Dr. Benjamin Chan, the state epidemiologist, described a classic...
by David Brooks | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you drive past Concord Municipal Airport one afternoon and see somebody walking next to the runway quickly – but not too quickly – while waving a butterfly net, you probably think you know what they’re doing: Keeping tabs on the Karner blue. Good guess, but you...
by David Brooks | May 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of Main Street’s most unusual tenants in Concord, a company that designs and builds high-end computer boards in offices above and below Gibson’s Bookstore, has been purchased by Molex, a much larger electronics firm based in Illinois. Company officials with Molex...
by David Brooks | May 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
People from other parts of the country, I have found, get Vermont and New Hampshire mixed up because we’re so small. I have several times been asked the equivalent of: “Are you the one that’s big on the top or the one that’s big on the...
by David Brooks | May 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Although in my academic career I took three or four (depending on how you count them) courses built around calculus, I have come to believe that we should downplay calculus in high school math in favor of statistics and other data-related topics, which are of more...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe New Hampshire just celebrated its seventh anniversary – seven! holy cow – with its regular monthly conversations in Nashua and Concord. In Concord, where I moderate, the topic was “reinventing recycling” and the conversation was...