by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The newest apparatus at Concord bar Area 23 draws less attention than the pool table or dartboards, but co-owner Kirk McNeil says the bitcoin machine he has tucked into a corner serves the same purpose: Attracting customers. “It’s a business move,” McNeil said of the...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Some bat populations in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. Researchers from the University of New Hampshire analyzed infection data and population trends of the...
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....