by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It sometimes seems that every chemical ever used in every product ever made turns out to be toxic, which we only realize after it has spread throughout the world and made people sick. Wouldn’t it be nice to know how toxic a chemical really is before we start using it?...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A combination of the aerial mapping using a system called LIDAR plus Internet-based crowd-sourcing may finally answer one of the most fascinating, if not very pressing, questions about the New Hampshire countryside: How many miles of stone walls do we have? “We want...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week, Maine’s best-known writer, Stephen King, got mad at the state’s biggest newspaper through Twitter because it said it would stop buying freelance reviews of Maine-based books for its book page, instead relying on the national book reviews by AP...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2019 | Newsletter
There’s a damning analysis in the latest Science magazine of Massive Open Online Courses – MOOCs – which some people (including, gulp, me) through might reinvent higher education: We highlight three patterns emerging from data on MOOCs provided by...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire has risen to the top echelon of research universities in the country as designated by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and is now among the 130 doctoral-granting universities in the...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want to learn more about that NASA exploration of the deepest deep-space object ever seen closeup, check the McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center’s show “To Pluto and Beyond – New Horizons Visits Ultima Thule”. The presentation will be Friday Feb. 1...