by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Newsletter
Welcome to a weekly mashup of sci/tech-y stuff around New Hampshire, from David Brooks of the Concord Monitor and GraniteGeek.org. As always, send me thoughts or suggestions: dbrooks@cmonitor.com. If you want a free subscription, go here.
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Newsletter
The biggest story in New Hampshire in the past week, from a certain point of view, was the DDOS attack on Dyn, the domain name service provider that has become such a presence in Manchester’s Millyard. I wrote about it in my column and discussed it on NHPR this...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Newsletter
Several years ago, tired by the annual newspaper ritual of writing stories about the color of New Hampshire’s autumn leaves, I decided to write about their number instead. I decided to answer the question: How many “peepable” leaves – the ones...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Newsletter
Voting reform is one of those topics that geeks just love; frustrated as all get-out by the messy human realities of legislating and politics, they’re convinced that tinkering with the inputs will improve the output, as if democracy was a signal generator. I...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2016 | Newsletter
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in Grafton County, between Plymouth and Lincoln, is a research gem, the site of long-term ecology studies and, most famously, the place where acid rain was discovered (as I noted in this column back in May, which included the fact...
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