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...
by David Brooks | Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I recently got back from a 10-day trip in Cuba, a place I’d never been. (Despite what I’d heard it is quite easy for Americans to visit there, assuming you can survive a nation with nary a McDonalds, Coca-Cola or Dunkin Donuts to be found.) The most...
by David Brooks | Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
By Joseph Blumberg, Dartmouth News: Dartmouth computer science graduate students are applying their research techniques to fundamental security flaws recently found in nearly every computer chip manufactured in the last 20 years. Until new designs are implemented, an...
by David Brooks | Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
This is the story of a massive, gorgeous tree that will die before long, the fact that we could save it but probably won’t, and the way that thousands of people, perhaps including you, are facing this same choice. “It’s a hard decision,” is how Ethan Belair, the UNH...
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