by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
In case you were wondering, Northern new England isn’t the endpoint of any international submarine data cable, according to this interactive map from TeleGeography, an telecom analysis firm. The closest cable to New Hampshire lands at Lynn, Mass. It’s...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
This is just one study and I’m not familiar with the journal it’s in, so this isn’t definite. File it under “intriguing possibility of another unintended consequence”. A researcher says that because electric cars are heavier than their...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
I have a (slightly belated – it kept getting bumped by breaking news) story in the Monitor today about last week’s 10th annual Formula Hybrid engineering contest at New Hampshire International Speedway, which starts thusly: Electric cars may be the future...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
My Concord Monitor column today talks about a MOOC (free online class) on introductory engineering (sort of an “engineering for poets” approach) put together by a Dartmouth professor who used a cartoon owl to help students work through problems and...
by David Brooks | May 9, 2016 | Blog
By UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station have completed the first assessment of the state’s native bee population, providing wildlife experts with the first comprehensive list of the Granite State’s more than 100 native bees that...