by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you hate deceptive telemarketing and phone scams – a description that covers every human being who ever lived – as of Jan. 1 you can push back a little more. A new state law imposes civil penalties of up to $5,000 for calls that pretend to be coming from a...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to storing lots of electricity for periods of time longer than batteries can handle, there are plenty of ideas being tossed around. Pump water uphill to a reservoir! Fill underground caverns with compressed air! Push a train up an incline! Stack a tower...
by David Brooks | Dec 30, 2019 | Blog
Long, long ago in a newsroom far, far away – actually, it was 1999 in Nashua – I squandered many valuable hours arguing with people who insisted that the new millennium wouldn’t begin until the year 2001. Two decades have gone by but those folks are still around, or...
by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in February I mentioned that LIDAR mapping of the White Mountains found that Mt. Tecumseh is only 3,995 feet tall, potentially removing it from the list of 4000-footers maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club. The idea of the iconic list of peaks...
by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a couple of proposed bills in New Hampshire that would sharply limit phone and telecom companies from selling location data scarfed from the always-on corporate spy pretending to be a phone that we carry at all times. As NHPR notes (story is here)...
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