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...
by David Brooks | May 9, 2016 | Blog
By UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station have completed the first assessment of the state’s native bee population, providing wildlife experts with the first comprehensive list of the Granite State’s more than 100 native bees that...
by David Brooks | May 9, 2016 | Blog
By Targeted News Service: Hypertherm of Hanover has been assigned a patent (9,326,367) developed by two co-inventors for “devices for gas cooling plasma arc torches and related systems and methods.” The co-inventors are Yu Zhang of Lebanon and Zheng Duan of Hanover....
by David Brooks | May 7, 2016 | Blog
The Twin Mountain General Store has, according to FreeKeene, set up a public bitcoin machine, the third in New Hampshire. I am dubious about the long-term reality of bitcoin (as compared to the blockchain, which is revoluntionary), but this is still pretty cool....
by David Brooks | May 5, 2016 | Blog
You know how annoying it is when an anti-virus scan starts while you’re doing something on your computer, slowing everything down or even freezing it? Now imagine this scenario: A critical medical equipment crashed during a heart procedure due to a timely scan...
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