by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a bill before the New Hampshire legislature that would shift the authority to amend the list of diseases for which vaccines are required in school, taking it from the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, and giving it to the state...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Newsletter
If it sometimes feels like your whole life has moved to your smartphone, New Hampshire has an update: Your death is moving there, too. As we speak, the New Hampshire Division of Vital Records is launching the country’s first smartphone application that will let...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Newsletter
As we all know, the internet is a series of tubes, and the most important tubes lie on the ocean floor, carrying data by the boatload (so to speak) from country to country. These tubes can be disrupted, however, by anything from ship anchors to leaks to the same sort...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody in New England – by which I mean me and people I know – has heard of the “January thaw”. This is the expectation that during the middle of this month, temperatures will rise above freezing long enough that skiers will get grumpy and...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH sent out a press release about some interesting research on materials – basically alerting the geometry of shapes that are “chiral,” or asymmetric in particular ways, to create lighter protective foams (or, to be specific, chiral auxetic cellular...
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