by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The geekiest bill before the New Hampshire legislature this year has to be HB320, which would take the process of redistricting (redrawing boundaries for legislators and senators) away from humans and give it to optimization software in an attempt to avoid the...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are technical reasons many shooters like the P320 from Sig Sauer in Newington, which won an Army contract that could be worth half a billion dollars. It doesn’t have an external hammer like the P229R and the Beretta M9, the handgun that it replaces for the Army,...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
I was one of the people lucky enough to see the blooming corpse flower at Dartmouth College last September, although I showed up a little to late to get a good whiff of its pungent aroma (sort of like dead people mixed with dirty socks). As the BBC reports, this bloom...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
The emerald ash borer continues its slow and deadly spread through New Hampshire’s forests, but one of two wasp species being tested as a biocontrol shows signs of thriving in the state, so maybe there’s hope that all of North America’s ash trees...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Newsletter
In 2013, when a state representative put forward a bill to study autonomous vehicles, proponents faced an image problem: “Scary robot cars!” That’s how Rep. Steven Smith, a Republican from Charlestown, described the past image of self-driving cars after discussing his...
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