by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Probably the most famous mathematical work with a New Hampshire connection is the proof of the four-color theorem, done by Wolfgang Haken and Ken Appel in 1976. (Appel later moved to New Hampshire and became head of the mathematics department at UNH, so the Granite...
by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers (hi, mom!) know that I love culverts, those thousands of pipes/mini-bridges under that carry streams under New Hampshire roadways. They are the perfect symbol and example of the reality of dealing with climate change, which is why this blog has seen...
by David Brooks | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
For the time in New Hampshire, this weekend will see a new roadway bridge slid into place over a waterway instead of being constructed there part of ongoing upgrades to Route 16 in Ossipee. “It’s our first time,” said Eileen Meaney, chief communications officer...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I have long maintained that on a per-capita basis, New Hampshire is the science cafe champion in the U.S. That’s thanks in large part to the example set by Science Cafe New Hampshire, which started nine years ago and is still going strong, in both Nashua and...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Between Eversource’s plan to use battery backup on an entire town instead of building a new transmission line, and Sunrun’s 20 MW solar-and-battery system that won a bid in the New England capacity market, large-scale battery backup is starting to be a...
by David Brooks | Sep 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A Concord resident and UNH law school professor has written a book called “Sharenthood” that I assumed would mostly be a screed telling parents not to put so much stuff on Facebook about their kids. It covers that, but a lot more, as I mention in my story...
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