by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
The United State Department of Transportation (DOT) is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors, which it’s saying cover nearly 25,000 miles, in 35 states. I can’t find a map and am awaiting DOT response so I don’t know what, if...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
Tuesday will be the first New Hampshire election in which it is legal to take a ballot selfie – to shoot a picture of your completed ballot inside the voting booth and share it online. All well and good, but that poses a potential problem from pushy relatives,...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Geeks love the idea of changing our voting from “first past the post” to a system that allows voters to rank/choose multiple candidates. It feeds into geeks’ basic belief that there exist algorithms that can change messy human behavior into something...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The national Science Foundation’s online magazine gives a tip of the hat to a UNH-led project putting many sensors on the Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth, NH, and Kittery, Maine. Ultimately, a suite of 40 sensors will create a self-diagnosing, self-reporting...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
A company called selfstoreage.com is sending out email pitches to get some free publicity, like many, many companies do – but this one is clever enough that they deserve the attention: If New Hampshire Were a Storage Unit, What Countries Would Fit Inside? They...
by David Brooks | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
By UNH News Service: DURHAM, N.H. – University of New Hampshire scientists are one step closer to being able to predict when oysters in the Great Bay Estuary may be at risk of being infected with a bacteria that has sickened consumers throughout the Northeast. UNH...
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