by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2016 | Blog
One of the most intriguing regional disasters of the past century – the Great Molasses Flood that killed 21 people in Boston’s North End in 1919 after a 2 million-gallon storage tank burst – has gotten the attention of academics who were curious...
by David Brooks | Nov 23, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Ten years ago, then-PSNH began operating Northern Wood Power, replacing a 50-megawatt coal-burning boiler (one of three at the Schiller plant in Portsmouth) with one that burns wood chips and other wood byproducts, replacing some 130,000 tons of coal annually. I...
by David Brooks | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog
Like all research universities, UNH receives, stores and disposes of lots and lots and lots of potentially nasty stuff – explosive, flammable, radioactive or corrosive – used for research and classes. And like all places with complicated inventories, UNH...
by David Brooks | Nov 21, 2016 | Blog
Oracle Co. has been a big presence in Nashua for such a long time that it’s located on Oracle Drive. Maybe they’ll make a similar street in the Manchester Millyard, since Oracle has announced it will buy Dyn, the state’s highest-flying tech firm, for...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog
Dyn has not issued anything new on the Oct. 21 DDOS attack that clogged it up and took down some major customers, including Twitter – specifically, who did the attack and why. (Their most recent public report was Oct. 26 on the company blog.) Meanwhile, the...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Wikipedia was created as an example of the openness-will-lead-to-goodness online world – an “encyclopedia that anyone can edit.” But as it has grown in size and importance, this philosophy (forward-looking and delightful or pitifully naive, depending...
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