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Letter: Brooks' advice strange FacebookTwitterEmail FILE. Letter writer says, 'I find strange at best David Brooks' column, "Open letter to a young Republican," Feb. 22, penned in response to a young man looking for direction in life and searching for ways to make a difference in the Republican Party.'  (Josh Haner/The New York Times) I find strange at best David Brooks' column, "Open letter to a young Republican," Feb. 22, penned in response to a young man looking for direction in life and searching for ways to make a difference in the Republican Party. His column referring to issues with t...

I just want to put a "-30-" on this. The New York Times reported earlier today that disclosures will be added to David Brooks' past columns in which he had a conflict of interest (background here). He's resigned from his paid position at the Aspen Institute. Most important, I think, is this: Mr. Brooks had…

Woolly mammoths and people might have crossed paths in New England This portion of a woolly mammoth rib, part of the Hood Art Museum collection, contained enough organic material to be radiocarbon dated – about 12,700 years ago. Image by Nathaniel Kitchel and Jeremy DeSilva An illustration of a wooly mammoth. Wikipedia Related stories In fossil-deprived Northern New England, where geology melted dinosaur remains and glaciers ground up everything else, woolly mammoths are special. Mammoths and their mastodon cousins are the only extinct megafauna that were definitely here at some point. So...

I revisited “The Voyage of the Cormorant” by Christian Beamish, in which he tells about building a boat in his garage and sailing the coastal waters of the Pacific. Beamish, who signed up for the U.S. Navy two weeks after graduating from high school, is a writer for Surfer magazine. His book offers refreshing writing about real-life experiences. Martha Barkley Charleston, South Carolina “Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard” by naturalist Douglas W. Tallamy is the more practical sequel to his earlier book “Bringing Nature Home.” It’s mo...

The New York Times is investigating David Brooks' ties to a group funded by Facebook and whether future columns should include a disclosure.