by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
My column in the Monitor today is the latest round of self-examination in which I face the unpleasant fact that a central tenant of my environmental attitude – “think globally, act locally” – has not only proven insufficient to tackle global...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I sometimes wonder when driving on the interstate – assuming I’m not zoning out in commuter-mode – who decides what gets put on which signs highway signs. Why does this one mention Milford and that one doesn’t? Why is this thing mentioned on a...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1999 at the iconic New Hampshire gaming arcade known as Funspot, a guy named Billy Mitchell achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Since then, his claim and other of his arcade records...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I first used the words “climate change” in a story in the late 1990s and it has been a regular part of my reporting since. How could it not? It’s a great story, and journalists love great stories. And it has only become a better* story over time, as...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have discovered a native relative of quinoa with high disease resistance that may be an ideal breeding partner to re-domesticate the grain in Northern New England. A...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Rainbows are really weird, when you stop and think about it. To a certain extent they don’t even exist – any given rainbow is a mass optical illusion rather than an actual thing. But they are fascinating. Even the sky around them is fascinating: Lighter on...
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