by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
The startup competitions are coming fast and furious. Last Friday was Rise of the Rest, featuring AOL founder Steven Case (if the words “warm regards” come to mind, you were also online before that Internet thing got up to speed*), which gave $100,000 to...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
It seems surprising that more businesses don’t have solar panels on their roof, especially all those in big industrial buildings with big, flat roofs. (Gaze down while taking off from Manchester airport southbound on runway 17/35 and you’ll spot a sea of...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog
Small-town museums are, let’s be honest, usually cute and amusing, but not much more. And I speak as a guy who helps run my small town’s history museum. That’s why I was so delighted by the New Hampshire Telephone Museum in tiny Warner, which is an...
by David Brooks | Oct 2, 2015 | Blog
I don’t know about you, but my garden went bonkers this year, especially the cherry tomatoes. I almost go sick of the darn things, there were so many of them for so long. But I didn’t get sick of them, because cherry tomatoes are one of the reasons that...
by David Brooks | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
Alan Shepard might have been the first American in space (not in orbit – he rode a sub-orbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight on May 5, 1961) and was one of just 12 people who have walked on the moon, but because he’s a New Hampshire boy, growing up in East...
by David Brooks | Oct 1, 2015 | Blog
Remember when “geek” meant a mutant who worked for a circus and bit the heads off chickens? No, I don’t either, but I do remember when it was a seldom-used word that was mildly insulting – not as bad as “nerd” (or...
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