by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog
Want to hear me talk about this week’s GraniteGeek column with NHPR’s Peter Biello? Then this is the place to click. (Poor Peter had to stop and help me pronounce Hany Farid’s name correctly. Spelling I can do – pronunciation, not so much.)...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog
The photo above shows my wife, Shelley, collecting bat poop, one pellet at a time, with tweezers. She’s in a neighbor’s barn, and we’re collecting it as part of a UNH research project that analyzes poop from these insect eaters to spot invasive...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog
Daylight saving time – advancing clocks an hour during summer so evening daylight lasts an hour longer – is one of those geeky-ish ideas that has been adopted by society, to much consternation. Every year (twice a year, actually) there is debate in the...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog
The Nashua bus system is using Google Translate on a tablet computer to help drivers deal with non-English-speaking riders. Brilliant idea. NHPR has the story. Speaking as somebody who has tried and failed to learn a second language most of my life – I...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog
An algorithm based on “robust hashing” of video images, developed by digital-image-forensics expert Hany Farid at Dartmouth, is being touted as a new way to limit the spread of violent recruitment videos online. Basically, once a video is identified by a...
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2016 | Blog
Goodness knows we need some upbeat news these days, so how about this, from Quartz: In 2014, scientists and activists alike panicked after Monarch population numbers reached record lows the year prior. Since then, North American leaders have been cooperating to save...
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