by David Brooks | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In response to my column last week celebrating (despite the many drawbacks) a global trend of smaller families, some readers and callers said that the real solution to planetwide environmental destruction is for each of us humans to consume fewer resources, rather...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Great story by the Washington Post (reprinted in the Bangor Daily News here) about why the white-footed mouse is such a prolific carrier of Lyme disease: What makes the mice such excellent carriers? Lax grooming habits. Passive immune systems. Endless offspring that...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The most hopeful change in human society that has occurred during my lifetime – a change that must continue if our grandchildren have any hope of a decent life – is really bad. It’s bad economically, bad socially, even bad culturally. But if you love your kids like I...
by David Brooks | Jul 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Pardon a personal rant, but for more than a decade my family has been fighting an invasive weed known as black swallowwort. It’s a vine that grows up from the ground and tangles everything; when we bought our property it had filled one field to the point that it...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
As I’ve noted several times, New Hampshire is one of the hotbeds of retail bitcoin usage thanks largely to the ultra-libertarian Free Staters. I believe we have more public bitcoin vending machines per capita than any state. For a short period s of July 31,...
by David Brooks | Jul 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Companies that make software to fight malware issue lots of alarming press releases about malware and I take them with a grain of self-serving salt. But here’s one that tweaked my Granite State interest: Computer users in New Hampshire were three times as likely...