by David Brooks | Sep 11, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH is returning to in-person events in Nashua at Margarita’s Restaurant, 1 Nashua Drive. It’s been a long time! The first monthly gathering will be Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. Topic: Health Impacts of Climate Change Panelists will be...
by David Brooks | Sep 11, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The answer to traffic congestion isn’t the Eisenhower Era approach of building more lanes, it’s building communities where everybody doesn’t need to drive everywhere. The Union-Leader has a profile today of three such developments being built in New...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A guy named Billy Mitchell holds a special place in a niche-y part of New Hampshire history: In 1999 at the iconic gaming arcade Funspot, a he achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Or did he?...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A Vermont librarian now owns MetaFilter, a social network that was started in 1999. It’s one of those sites that I have occasionally encountered over the decades although I’ve never been part of it. “There’s some people who have been a part of this...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard. Maine created one of the toughest rules in the nation...