by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
Yesterday’s Science Cafe NH in Nashua discusses cybersecurity, with panelists Tim Winters of UNH-Interoperability Lab and John Murphy of Flowtraq, a network-monitoring firm in Lebanon, N.H. They were both excellent; unfortunately the Nashua SCNH is not filmed,...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
A squirrel caused a short-circuit in a transformer and blew out power to most of Exeter on Jan. 4, reports the Union-Leader. This is no surprise to GraniteGeek readers, who may remember this story from December 2015, following a power outage in Concord caused by a...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
For years I’ve wanted to write a story about telephone poles, that ubiquitous presence that is almost entirely overlooked unless we hit them with a car on black ice. I finally did – and the Monitor ran it on Christmas Day. Several people read it, I’m...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Three years ago a soft-spoken calculus lecturer at UNH named Yitang “Tom” Zhang suddenly became world famous, at least within the world of research mathematics, for releasing a major breakthrough in the twin-prime conjecture (which guesses that there are...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
If you need some noise to drown out the sound of the snowblower, you could do worse than to load your iPod with Wednesday’s recording of The Exchange, NHPR’s talk show, and hear podcaster/radio star Sam Evans-Brown and I talked with host Laura Knoy about...
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