by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Poking through an old footlocker, I found this 1995 book, the second edition of The Whole Internet User’s Guide. Such nostalgia! 1995 was the year the online world really entered public attention. I had started writing a second column for the Nashua Telegraph...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: At Dartmouth a rare corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum) named Morphy is getting ready to bloom at the Life Sciences Greenhouse on campus. Once in bloom, the enormous plant will have a pungent odor that has been compared to...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire doesn’t allow early voting – you can’t cast a ballot before election day unless you’re going to be out of town or unable to make it to the polls – and yet we consistently have one of the highest election turnout percentages...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Years ago I helped a friend of a friend with a backyard aquaponics system – in which plants are grown in water rather than soil and fish live in the water. I was entranced. It seemed almost magical, with the poop from the fish feeding the plants to create both...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(The first thing I thought of when I read this was Asimov’s short story “The Last Question”) By David Hirsch, Dartmouth News Service: In search of inspiration for improving computer-based text translators, researchers at Dartmouth College turned to...
by David Brooks | Oct 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As we await approval of my proposal for a historical marker honoring BASIC (the holdup right now if finding a good location on a state-maintained road), let’s note an excellent addition to the program: The N.H. Division of Historical Resources announced that a...