by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I installed the Tor browser at home last night. I had been thinking of using this privacy & anonymizing system for a long time, at least since I wrote about the debate over whether NH libraries can support the system, but never got around to it. Now Congress and...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a heated debate about whether towns should have moved their state elections on March 14 due to a blizzard. About a third of them did – which is unprecedented in New Hampshire history. There may be some lawsuits as a result, so the Monitor figured...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called Kraig Biocraft Laboratories in Michigan says it has cleared “a key hurdle to mass produce spider silk in Vietnam via a transgenic silkworm capable of spinning recombinant spider silk.” Cool, yes, but what’s the New Hampshire angle?...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
“After three decades of trying to spread the joy of science through polysyllabic newspaper columns, I’m beginning to think that I should be flushing mercury down the toilet on YouTube, instead.” That’s the start of my Monitor column today (you can...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog
I have always regarded Earth Hour as a mildly clever but not important gesture. Started in Sydney in 2007, it is a global event in which all are urged to turn off their lights for an hour at a certain time (8:30pm on 25 March 2017) to create a visible statement about...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
As a confirmed skeptic, I agree that it’s a good idea to not accept blindly the statements of others but to consider them and weigh the evidence when it exists. However, that is not the same thing as saying “I never believe X, period” – which...
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