by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
I was one of the people lucky enough to see the blooming corpse flower at Dartmouth College last September, although I showed up a little to late to get a good whiff of its pungent aroma (sort of like dead people mixed with dirty socks). As the BBC reports, this bloom...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
The emerald ash borer continues its slow and deadly spread through New Hampshire’s forests, but one of two wasp species being tested as a biocontrol shows signs of thriving in the state, so maybe there’s hope that all of North America’s ash trees...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
In 2013, when a state representative put forward a bill to study autonomous vehicles, proponents faced an image problem: “Scary robot cars!” That’s how Rep. Steven Smith, a Republican from Charlestown, described the past image of self-driving cars after discussing his...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
A research paper by Steven Kahl, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and colleagues compared the effect of the arrival of computers in business on “systems men, who squeezed efficiencies out of firms through work-flow process...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a bill before the New Hampshire legislature that would shift the authority to amend the list of diseases for which vaccines are required in school, taking it from the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, and giving it to the state...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Newsletter
If it sometimes feels like your whole life has moved to your smartphone, New Hampshire has an update: Your death is moving there, too. As we speak, the New Hampshire Division of Vital Records is launching the country’s first smartphone application that will let...
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