by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is a breaking story as I am putting together the newsletter, and more details may emerge. This news is good for the patient who doesn’t have measles, but it’s unfortunate for those of us trying to prevent anti-vaccine foolishness from deluding the...
by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
What is it with the little towns on the Connecticut River west of Keene? First Chesterfield sets up the state’s first municipally-supported broadband network with Consolidated Communications, now its neighbor Westmoreland is the target of an unusual...
by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I moderated my 60th – if I’m counting correctly – Science Cafe New Hampshire this week. It featured three UNH physics professors ( Francois Foucart, James Ryan, and David Mattingly) talking about black holes and other deep-space astrophysics stuff....
by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
An intriguing paper in Nature argues that the usual method of getting people into environmental activism by doing little things first (turn out that light! take a shorter shower!) is actually counter-productive for getting real change. Across six experiments,...
by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
In the course of my career I have written several articles when an animal (squirrel, hawk, something else that I forget) gets into an electrical system and blows out power to thousands of people. Here’s an example. Spring is prime animals-screw-up-power season,...
by David Brooks | May 23, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has had makerspaces for almost a decade, so the first one and by most measures the biggest wants to celebrate. MakeIt Labs in Nashua is holding its first regional festival next month. MakeIt Fest will have representatives from New Hampshire makerspaces...