by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog
I will join a computer professor and a manager from high-flying tech company Dyn for a discussion about the history, technology, and impact of the Internet after a showing of “Lo and Behold” at Red River Theaters in Concord on Monday evening. “Lo and Behold: Reveries...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
(Note: The item below was posted while I was still writing my newspaper article – the complete article ran in today’s Concord Monitor, and it’s right here. There isn’t a huge difference, mostly more quotes.) The state’s small but active bitcoin...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
On Sunday my wife and I visited Morphy, the “corpse flower” blooming at Dartmouth College, joining the teeming hordes who couldn’t pass up the chance for a vegetative olfactory assault from the world’s largest flower. We arrived at 10 a.m.,...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
When the state recently issued population projections over the next 25 years, the Monitor newsroom noticed something odd: Allenstown, a community just east of Concord that we cover regularly, was projected to lose population for a decade and then grow again –...
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
Because I am not an idiot I am a big fan of vaccines, one of the greatest creations of humanity – but that doesn’t mean they lack drawbacks. The flu vaccine is particularly iffy, because influenza is a multi-faceted disease that changes shape every year....
by David Brooks | Sep 28, 2016 | Blog
There’s a brilliantly written piece in the Monitor – it uses only great words – discussing the complexities of defining and responding to invasive species. The news hook (newsroom-speak for “why I wrote it at this moment”) is a debate in...
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