by David Brooks | May 11, 2016 | Blog
A federally subsidized program called ConnectHome is designed to help low-income families get broadband Internet access, but it’s using a speed limit of 4 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up. That has irritated some U.S. senators, including Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
In case you were wondering, Northern new England isn’t the endpoint of any international submarine data cable, according to this interactive map from TeleGeography, an telecom analysis firm. The closest cable to New Hampshire lands at Lynn, Mass. It’s...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
This is just one study and I’m not familiar with the journal it’s in, so this isn’t definite. File it under “intriguing possibility of another unintended consequence”. A researcher says that because electric cars are heavier than their...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
I have a (slightly belated – it kept getting bumped by breaking news) story in the Monitor today about last week’s 10th annual Formula Hybrid engineering contest at New Hampshire International Speedway, which starts thusly: Electric cars may be the future...
by David Brooks | May 10, 2016 | Blog
My Concord Monitor column today talks about a MOOC (free online class) on introductory engineering (sort of an “engineering for poets” approach) put together by a Dartmouth professor who used a cartoon owl to help students work through problems and...
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