by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2016 | Blog
I wonder what keyboard slipup led to this delightful temperature listing for Nashua? It’s not easy to accidentally type “-78” instead of something like “25” – although I’ve certainly made more than my share of boneheaded...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2016 | Blog
You’re not supposed to bring untreated firewood into New Hampshire or Maine, because such transport has proven to be a major route for invasive, tree-destroying insects to infect areas. Now Vermont wants to join suit, with a proposed rule that would ban all...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2016 | Blog
On Friday, Wikipedia becomes old enough to be married in Idaho, Missouri or Hawaii with parental consent. In anticipation of its 15th birthday, including a party to be held at harvard that you – yes, you – can attend, I talked with NHPR’s Peter...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
Human brains can’t handle numbers like 292 million, which is why you think you have a chance to win the Powerball lottery. (Odds of the grand prize are 292,201,338 to 1.) Well, you don’t. To demonstrate, here’s another way to think of that number: A...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog
I can’t afford a Tesla and real-world electric cars don’t have the range to handle my embarrassingly long commute (shame on me) – until now, that is. Later this year General Motors will start selling the Bolt, the badly-named (too close to its Volt)...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog
If you want a single poetic sentence that sums up the issues facing humanity and the planet, you could do a lot worse than the opening line of the first Whole Earth Catalog in 1968: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” A less poetic way to...
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