by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire doesn’t allow early voting – you can’t cast a ballot before election day unless you’re going to be out of town or unable to make it to the polls – and yet we consistently have one of the highest election turnout percentages...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Years ago I helped a friend of a friend with a backyard aquaponics system – in which plants are grown in water rather than soil and fish live in the water. I was entranced. It seemed almost magical, with the poop from the fish feeding the plants to create both...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(The first thing I thought of when I read this was Asimov’s short story “The Last Question”) By David Hirsch, Dartmouth News Service: In search of inspiration for improving computer-based text translators, researchers at Dartmouth College turned to...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As we await approval of my proposal for a historical marker honoring BASIC (the holdup right now if finding a good location on a state-maintained road), let’s note an excellent addition to the program: The N.H. Division of Historical Resources announced that a...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2018 | Newsletter
On the global-news scale, there has been one good worldwide story in the past few decades: The seemingly irreversible decline in the world’s population growth rate. As countries become richer and give women more life options, they universally choose to have...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When I go into Boston I drive to one of the distant subway stations and take the train, because who wants to park in Boston? I generally go to Alewife at the end of the Red Line because it has a massive (if not well maintained) parking garage. For years there were a...
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