by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire requires voters to fill in little circles on the ballot when voting for public office, sort of like answering questions on the SAT. (Assuming they still do that – it’s been a loooooong while since I took the SAT.) Then you run the paper...
by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In an entertaining but essentially meaningless bit of data mapping, a couple of folks at The Pudding, an online publication that looks at culture via visual data, assembled a map showing the “most Wikipedia-ed” person throughout the U.S. (here’s the...
by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has lot fretted about a shortage of births producing a “silver tsunami” of old folks that will cripple the economy, shutter our colleges and produce an over-supply of Denny’s restaurants. Most of us know that is true throughout New...
by David Brooks | Jun 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State: The latest New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker, celebrating the creation of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth in 1964, has officially been installed. Everybody who has...
by David Brooks | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
People think of the New Hampshire State House as a bastion of democracy and a glorious symbol of our granite-willed independence, but here’s another way to think of it: A really old office building with some really weird wiring. The building celebrated its 200th...
by David Brooks | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire has launched a new center focused on the science of sound. The Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE) will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research,...
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