by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You know how the “silver tsunami” is going to devastate our economy? Maybe not, says this article in Technology Review from MIT: Her guess is that productivity has fallen as the population ages because the most skilled and experienced people have...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Farmhouse Cafe in Dunbarton has lots of cute little things to look at, like many such eateries. One of them is this counter bell covered with little painted sayings. I was stunned to see, however, that they’re mathy sayings! Including the quadratic...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ll take any scrap of good environmental news I can find these days, so I jumped all over a report from SevenDays, the independent Vermont publication, that little brown bats in that state are showing signs of starting to adapt to white-nose syndrome....
by David Brooks | Aug 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The nation’s first real wind farm – multiple power-producing wind turbines feeding into the grid – was built in New Hampshire, on Crotched Mountain in Francestown in 1980. It was a research project from UMass-Amherst; I have written about it before...
by David Brooks | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Over my career I have gotten tired of publicity stunts by activists even, though I sympathize with their desire to draw attention to issues that are easy to overlook. So I was going to ignore a stunt in front of the New Hampshire State House – site of many...
by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
99 pints of blood in the bank, 99 pints of my blooda poke in my vein, a 6-minute drain100 pints of blood in the bank … Yes, I’ve hit the century mark in the draining-precious-bodily-fluid department. Don’t you want to hear more? Of course you do...