by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog
At the risk of sounding decrepit and backward-looking, I love paper maps. I love online maps and smartphone mapping apps, of course, but there’s nothing like a large detailed paper map to give you a sense of place and context. I’m not alone in this, as...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2016 | Blog
I’ve got a story in the Monitor today about the future capacity auction, which is kind of boring as finance but also interesting as a reflection of the changing face of the electric grid – but the most interesting bit is probably this sentence: The annual...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog
The New Hampshire House of Representatives killed a bill that would have required the labeled of foods that used genetically-modified ingredients, reports the Concord Monitor. (I covered a standing-room-only hearing on the issue last month, if you want to see more of...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2016 | Blog
I love winter and I love snow, but I hate wintery rain and you probably do, too. If it’s going to be cold and precipitating, it better be what TV weather folks love to call “the white stuff.” But increasingly it’s not, especially in New...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog
From NH Fish and Game: A helicopter capture crew has completed the work of collaring additional moose for the third year of a study being undertaken by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in partnership with the University of New Hampshire. Fish and Game moose...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
Last month, I noted the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia with a column (here it is) devoted in part to an article about the so-called Feynmann point, a sextet of 9’s in a row that can be found 762 digits into the decimal expansion of pi. The six 9s are sometimes...
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