by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College has set up a clever tournament to help teach students and staff not to fall for phishing emails. It seems like most major corporate and government tech breaches occur not because of some cool software hack but because somebody clicked on the wrong...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Vtdigger, one of two statewide independent news organizations in Vermont, has a story about REMUS 600, a 16-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle programmed that was tested below the ice on Willoughby Lake by engineers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
This week New Hampshire will mark a grim anniversary: A full year of COVID-19 deaths. On March 23, 2020, the state’s first official death was announced due to what we were calling “the novel coronavirus.” The virus hasn’t seemed novel for a long time now but the...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re going to do local journalism in Vermont, you can’t churn out predictable “oh boy it’s maple syrup season!” stories. You’ve got to delve into the mathematics of the process, as the Valley New does here. What, you...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2021 | Newsletter
One of the most famous moments in New Hampshire history – the most famous if you’re a weather fan – has taken center stage in the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, although it’s missing a couple of things. Giant mounds of frozen snow and ice, for one. “The frame...