by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Templeton Prize is one of the major prizes in science – $1.4 million in prize money helps – but it’s a bit of an oddball because it emphasizes the non-quantifiable part of human knowledge. It was awarded today to Marcelo Gleiser, a cosmologist at...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Now that in-law apartments are no longer outlawed, New Hampshire towns are working on the details of what is turning out to be a small, if intriguing, part of the region’s housing mix. “We’ve had maybe four of them, if that,” said Stephanie Giovannucci, interim Town...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Voters were missing something when they showed up at the polls Tuesday in the town of Milford: The alphabet. For the first time in memory the polling stations in the middle school gymnasium lacked signs directing voters to a specific clerk depending on the first...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Amidst the national (global) decline of print journalism, the closing of the Suncook Valley Sun, a free weekly based in Pittsfield, isn’t a big deal. It had no reporters and depended on submissions from readers, either columns or letters. They fell into...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the most surprising big-picture changes that has taken place during my life is the way biology has taken the mantel of “most interesting scientific field” from physics. When I was a kid, all the little geeks wanted to become physicists. Physics had relativity...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers will know that for close to a decade I’ve measured precipitation every day for a national citizen-science group called CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow network). I mention it so often that some readers have made fun of me for it...
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