by David Brooks | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s not that I’m lazy, but there are days when I don’t make the 100-yard walk down my driveway to see what’s in the mailbox because – well, it’s 100 yards away. That’s like a dozen trips from the couch to the refrigerator. I don’t miss out, however, because the...
by David Brooks | Jun 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The documentary about the twin-prime discovery by Yitang “Tom” Zhang, made when he was a lecturer at UNH in Durham, has been released. (I mentioned that it was coming a few months ago). Here are a few details, and the trailer. I’m working on getting...
by David Brooks | Jun 1, 2017 | Newsletter
New Hampshire loves Dyn, the internet performance management company dreamed up in a WPI dorm up, established in the Manchester Millyard and, with a $600 million or so acquisition by Oracle has become the state’s biggest tech story in years. Above and beyond...
by David Brooks | Jun 1, 2017 | Newsletter
In general the only people who like power line corridors – those straight cuts through forest and field for electricity transmission towers – are ATV riders, who appreciate the pathway. Or so I thought until I spent a morning with UNH researchers...
by David Brooks | Jun 1, 2017 | Newsletter
When we think of the dangers of rising sea levels we think of “king tides” along the NH seacoast and Florida spending more on seawalls. But water in the ocean is indirectly connected with water in the ground under our feet, and when the former gets higher,...