by David Brooks | Aug 15, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The UNH InterOperability Lab is one of the state’s tech-y (cliche alert!) hidden gems. It’s got a national, even international, reputation for testing equipment and helping develop standards, but aside from the occasional brilliantly written, insightful...
by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have launched a research project that aims to “re-domesticate” the superfood quinoa in Northern New England, giving the region’s farmers new...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The best thing in all of computing might be the 418 status code, an offshoot of a longrunning joke called the Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol (wikipedia, of course, can explain that) which plays off the kids song I’m A Little Teapot. It states: Any attempt...
by David Brooks | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve done stories about folks making geo-tagged maps with photos and data – here’s a guy making one with sounds: For three weeks, the Berklee College of Music professor will traverse the national forest, ferreting out the best sounds with which to...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in January I wrote about a Tufts math professor’s push to use mathematics to more objectively define voting districts and thus push back against gerrymandering. It was a story about House Bill 320 would would have established a commission to give the...