by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog
I’ve been writing about UNH aquaculture since 1999, including efforts to develop ways to raise large numbers of fish in huge floating tanks (really nets suspended from big floating rings) in the ocean. It’s cool to see that this operation is paying...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
Yesterday’s Science Cafe NH in Nashua discusses cybersecurity, with panelists Tim Winters of UNH-Interoperability Lab and John Murphy of Flowtraq, a network-monitoring firm in Lebanon, N.H. They were both excellent; unfortunately the Nashua SCNH is not filmed,...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2017 | Blog
It’s now obvious that the Russians didn’t hack into Burlington Electric, the power utility in northwest Vermont, despite an early Washington Post story claiming it. (The Post, which is a real rather than fake news organization, wrote a follow-up story...
by David Brooks | Dec 30, 2016 | Blog
By the time you read this, the first heavy storm of the winter will be on its way out to sea and you will have one question on your mind: How much snow did I get? I hate to break it to you, but if by “how much” you mean “how deep,” nobody really knows for sure....
by David Brooks | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog
My favorite stories involve explaining ordinary things that we hardly think about (like, say, snow fences). For several years I’ve wanted to write one about telephone – sorry, utility poles. I finally got around to it last week, and it was published on...
by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2016 | Blog
I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the point where things get dicey without all-wheel drive. For two decades, I have talked about setting up a snow fence to keep out the drifts, but I’ve never...
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