by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader’s Dave Pierce has a profile of a local boy (Manchester West grad who grew up Bedford) who developed the hashtag for social-media sites in 2007. The article is here. As an early technology user, Messina first tweeted the idea to his followers and...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
According to the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, last year was the warmest year in Concord since record-keeping began in 1868. The year finished with an average temperature of 49.6 degrees, 0.2 degrees higher than 2023, the previous hottest year on record....
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The Caledonian-Record has a story about UNH and the Cog Railway on Mt. Washington working to electrify the iconic mountain-climbing train. “This privately funded quarter-million dollar project aims to have a prototype ready by 2025” and will have...
by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The SEE Science Center’s twelfth season of Science on Tap discussions continues Tuesday, Jan. 14. Science on Tap events are informal discussions with local scientists and experts on a particular topic. On Tuesday January 14th the topic will be: Extinction Here...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
I promise that this column was written by me and not by artificial intelligence. The fact that I have to write such a sentence says volumes about where we are at the moment. Here’s another one of those volumes: You can get a weekly email summarizing what happened at...