by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last weekend Manchester celebrated Ralph Baer, a local boy led the team that created the first home video game, Magnavox Odyssey, while working for Sanders Associates (now BAE) in Nashua. Part of the celebration was playing a giant ping-pong game in honor of his first...
by David Brooks | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Dave Solomon at the Union-Leader talked to the new owners of New Hampshire’s two coal-fired power plants (or three, depending on how you count the twin Schiller plants in Portsmouth) and says they’re going to keep running because they make enough money...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From Ethan DeWitt, the Monitor’s State House reporter: The revolt has been a quiet one. For years, advocates in a small circle of New England states have entertained a radical idea: throwing off the tyrannical yoke of Eastern Standard Time and choosing a...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Are your ears bored? You can listen to me talk about this column with Features Editor Sarah Pearson by clicking right here.) You may have heard that we are facing an insect apocalypse, a portent of the collapse of the global food chain and resulting planetary chaos....
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: I stupidly didn’t notice, until a commenter pointed it out, that this article talks only about air-to-water heat pumps, which do the harder job of heating up water to be used in home heating, rather than the more common air-to-air system. These...
by David Brooks | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
By coincidence – we’re not that good at planning – the two Science Cafe New Hampshire sessions this month have topic overlaps. On Wednesday, March 13, in Nashua they’re talking about the science of forensics. Panelists Tim Pilleri & Lance...
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