by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog
From NHTI, the community college in Concord: The weekend of January 25-27, 2019, teams of programmers, artists and musicians will gather at NHTI to take part in Global Game Jam (GGJ), a worldwide game development event. Held simultaneously at over 800 hundred sites...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody agrees that composting food waste is a no-brainer – it creates useful soil-enhancing product and doesn’t take up landfill space. But actually collecting all the little bits of food that are discarded from kitchens and cafeterias all over the...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2019 | Newsletter
Science Cafe NH in Concord lost our venue suddenly due to renovation and will be moving to another bar/restaurant. As a result, the January event was cancelled – sorry about that. Science Cafe NH in Nashua wasn’t affected – its monthly event was...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont Public Radio reported on a counter-intuitive situation in that state which reflects how complicated energy markets are: (The whole story is here) Washington Electric Co-op, a small member-owned utility based in East Montpelier, Vermont, sells energy credits...
by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2019 | Blog
I received a few geek-nostalgia comments in response to the news about the historical marker for the invention of BASIC. Here’s a good one, from David Stamps: Your article on the signpost commemorating the history of BASIC reminding me of another probably unsung...