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...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In 2016 I got to tour inside the iconic gasholder building in Concord, a handsome circular brick structure that once held gas made from coal that was used for lighting and heat in the city, in the days before natural gas pipelines showed up here. (Here’s that...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
ne of the mysteries of life for those of us who have achieved a certain age is why airplanes aren’t exciting any more. “This was like Silicon Valley, it was the hot technology,” is how Jeff Rapsis, the new executive director of the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire,...