by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
I did my best not to sound ignorant on the NH Public Radio talk show The Exchange today, discussing the West Lebanon, NH, library that got in a bit of a kerfuffle over hosting a Tor node. You can listen to it at their website here – it starts about 40 minutes...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2015 | Blog
The Globe reports (here) that Circle Internet Financial in Boston has gotten the first bitcoin-dealing license (“bitlicense,” of course) from New York state. Circle Internet Financial, based in Boston, has outlined security, capitalization, controls...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog
When it comes to supplements, you and I are guinea pigs, unlike with real drugs, where lab rats (and sometimes guinea pigs) are the guinea pigs. Vox explains why in a good article (read it here) today: To remove a supplement from the market, the FDA first has to prove...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2015 | Computers-Digital Devices, Science-Technology
It’s not entirely true, but perhaps not entirely false, to credit an indignant 8-year-old with public recognition of New Hampshire’s pivotal contribution to the video game industry. As his parents tell it, 8-year-old Alex Baer was taken to a talk in 2000 concerning...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2015 | Blog
Albino animals don’t usually do well in the wild, because they’re easy to be spotted by prey and predators when it’s not snowy (there’s a reason that snowshoe hares change color as winter comes) and because melanin is important in the...
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