by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The newest high-profile hire at New England College is carefully polite when asked whether his expertise, online gaming, faces any kind of generational divide. “There are always going to be critics – ‘Is this beneficial?’ ” asked Tyrelle Appleton, the 25-year-old MBA...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As I have mentioned several times in this blog, I take daily measurements of precipitation at my house as part of the citizen-science group CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow network). Every October it gathers yearly data for all the observers (more than...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: I put this item up in June. On Nov. 9, the airport responded on twitter: Identifying trees is hard – I can’t get much beyond evergreen vs. deciduous. Still, it’s kind of embarrassing that one of the state’s highest-profile tree...
by David Brooks | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Tuesday’s election in Maine was the first time that ranked-choice voting has ever been used in a statewide election in the U.S., and right now it looks like it will be needed: As of Thursday morning (Nov. 8) the race in the 2nd Congressional District is too...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: As cars become more automated, could commutes become productive office hours? That’s the question University of New Hampshire researcher Andrew Kun and colleagues from four other institutions will explore with a $2 million grant from the...
by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From N.H. Dept. of Agriculture: A particularly observant New Hampshire resident recently noticed a tick on a dog visiting New Hampshire from an area in New York where the Asian longhorned tick has been found in the environment. That tick and others were submitted for...