by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Reported by Geoff Forester in today’s Monitor; I helped with the writing: A nationally known computer hacker, a term he wears proudly, helped keep an eye on New Hampshire’s primary Tuesday but says you didn’t need computer smarts to see that it went well. “One...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Anybody who measures precipitation, as I do for the citizen-science group CoCoRaHS, knows that measuring snowfall is hard. It drifts, it compresses over time, there’s only a minor correlation between depth and moisture. So it’s hard to study and understand...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Farmers, as you know, grow stuff to eat. Gardeners grow stuff to look at. Or, wait – do they really? That’s the distinction that has always lurked in my head, although I never really thought about it until recently. It turns out that this unspoken assumption, like so...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Addendum: There are two problems with this idea. One is that the Concord tank still has all its workings, including the massive cap that floated on the gas. This is what makes it quite possibly unique among the nation’s gasholder buildings, but it would also...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Experienced New Hampshire voters will see something quite familiar when they cast their primary ballots Tuesday: A vote-counting machine that hasn’t changed in more than two decades. The AccuVote optical reader has been part of Granite State elections since the...
by David Brooks | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
We may not be ready to adopt “Live Telemarketer-Free or Die” as a state slogan but we might be getting close: New Hampshire is No. 1 when it comes to registering on the federal Do Not Call list. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission says people in New Hampshire...