by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog
There’s not a lot of geekery in my Monitor story today about efforts to reopen long-closed Tenney Mountain Ski Area – but check out Geoff Forester’s photo of the pump-house. Four huge diesel engines, consuming 5,000 gallons of fuel a day, are needed...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2015 | Blog
I guess 14 years of blowing stuff up in interesting ways was enough: Mythbusters will wind up in 2016 after 248 episodes and 2,950 experiments. But “Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have secretly known the end was coming all year and have been crafting an explosive...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog
There’s a big and interesting-looking summit coming to Hampton this weekend, called Rising Tides, to discuss ways that coastal communities can cope with rising sea levels and more violent, if not necessary more frequent, storms. It’s invitation only and...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog
In a move that must make Uber officials weep with joy at their good luck, the first police citation given for being an Uber drier in Portsmouth, maybe in the state, went to a 63-year-old grandmother who goes to church in town and has already been registered to drive a...
by David Brooks | Oct 21, 2015 | Blog
Carbon nanotubes – rolled-up tubes made of carbon atoms at the billionth-of-a-meter scale – are the poster child of nanotech, since they are very strong, very light, and they conduct electricity, making them a very interesting material to work with....