by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog
Sanford Wallace was one of the early people who were famously bad on the Internet, by creating an email spam network in the late 1990s that earned him the name “Spam King” a.k.a. Spamford Wallace. But on the New Hampshire Seacoast, he was known for...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2016 | Blog
Dartmouth has an unusual engineering degree system – you get a BA in engineering, no majors/specialties unless you go to a 5th year – but even so, it’s surprising that a majority (54%) of the 119 engineering BA’s given out this year went to...
by David Brooks | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog
Wind turbines built around an upright axis, rather than the horizontal axis of a traditional three-blade turbine, look cool. They use all sorts of swoopy spiral-ish designs to grab wind on one side of the axis while not being pushed back by it on the other side....
by David Brooks | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog
Two big dam removals and a big river bypass around a third have made the Penobscot River in Maine accessible to salmon, alewife, shad, eels and other saltwater-to-freshwater fish for the first time in a century or more. (This one a major reason why the anadromous fish...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog
For years I’ve been reading Phil Plait, who became famous in 2002 for writing Bad Astronomy, a book debunking astronomy pseudoscience. He is entertaining and knowledgeable, a nice combination. So I was intrigued when two New Hampshire Public Radio...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog
An error handling flatworms in a gen-ed biology class (about as far from research as college gets) has turned into an interesting project to create animal models for a series of rare but debilitating diseases. A perfect example of “fortune favors the prepared...
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