by David Brooks | Apr 11, 2019 | Newsletter
Ham radio has been a staple of the geek world since long before the first semiconductor was semi-conducting, and it’s still around. Local newspaper reporters like me occasionally realize this and do a story, such as this one from the Portsmouth Herald, which...
by David Brooks | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note to print readers of the Monitor: Yes, the story in print said “1200 band modem” – I’ll have to blame that one on an editor who’s probably too young to remember when modem speeds were a topic of conversation.)(I can’t be too...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(I seem to be a branch office of the UNH pressroom this week, but so be it: they’ve generated some interesting stuff.) From UNH News Service: In a first-of-its-kind observation, researchers from the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center have...
by David Brooks | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found a dramatic decline of 14 wild bee species that are, among other things, important across the Northeast for the pollination of major local crops like apples, blueberries and cranberries....
by David Brooks | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
When I saw the press release about this research (here it is) I wasn’t sure that I could make a column out of it, so I seized on the “big molecule” angle. Now that it’s in print, I’m still not sure I can make a column out of it. But...