by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Newsletter
The Brookings compared economic growth (GDP) and carbon emission from electricity for all the states between 2000 and 2014, and found that 33 have “decoupled” emissions from economic growth – including New Hampshire. You can see the NH chart above,...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The InterOperability Lab at UNH has a national, even international, reputation as a good place for testing and certification of network devices and helping the development of standards. So I’m happy to see that they’ve begun a program focusing on security...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody knows the sort of companies you find on a downtown main street: Funky retailers, novel eateries, bars, music venues and professional offices. In Concord, you can add something of a surprise: Makers of very high-end computer boards. That’s the start of...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth researcher Erich Osterberg is researching surface melting in Greenland via ice cores and other fieldwork. I talked to him about his work for my Monitor column today, which you can read right here. Trigger warning: It is realistic about climate change, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH takes December off, but when we return in January the Concord event will discuss electric cars. The prod for that topic is the arrival of the Chevrolet Bolt, the first mass-market electric car from a U.S. automaker (Tesla, while a wonder to behold,...