by David Brooks | Apr 7, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When big trees fall over in a storm, their upended root masses can the raised six, ten or more feet in the air. They slowly rot over many years forming what’s called a tip-up or, after many decades, a pillow. (Alongside the pillow will be a depression where the...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One New Hampshire spring tradition is declaration of “ice out” on lakes, of which the most famous is on Lake Winnipesaukee, the state’s biggest body of fresh water. This year it was declared on April 5, which is pretty early. The announcement led a...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A lot of meteorological records that are kept – wind, precipitation, snowfall, temperature – but I didn’t realize that sunshine was one of them. Silly me! The Blue Hill Observatory in Massachusetts says that March tied for the sunniest on record with...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Keene was among the first – maybe the first – New Hampshire city to start testing of sewage for SARS-CoV2 viruses (here’s my story from last August). Now they’re testing for two variants, as well, as the Keene Sentinel reports. I suspect this...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As a rule I don’t pay much attention to surveys of people’s attitudes about things that don’t exist yet, because their vague assumptions about what’s involved (based on the usually vague wording in the survey) have nothing to do with reality....
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the difficulties in getting people like you – and I suppose me, too – to be on guard against bad guys online, is that we are not quite as clever as we think. “In graduate school, I worked in a computer lab managing systems, and what fascinated me is how people...
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