by David Brooks | May 2, 2016 | Blog
Ralph Baer, the late Manchester inventor who led the team that created the first home video game (Magnavox Odyssey) while working for a Nashua defense contractor, already has his home office in the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. Now a gaming museum,...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2016 | Blog
UnDark, the new MIT science-journalism magazine, has a piece about unpublished research which hints that the Zika virus might be carried by Culex pipiens, which is the mosquito most common for transmitting West Nile virus and EEE in New England. The evidence is thin,...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2016 | Blog
I just wrote a profile of Stonewall Cable, a small-ish (about 70 people) firm in the North Country town of Rumney, N.H., which makes specialty broadcasting and data cables for military and electronics applications – including cables being used by broadcasters in...
by David Brooks | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Dartmouth News Department has a piece (see it here) about Thayer School of Engineering Professor Jifeng Liu, whose research includes efforts to make thin-film solar panels, which has long been a goal for better or cheaper solar power. His solar cell materials research...
by David Brooks | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
Wired.com has a really interesting piece (here) about the energy crisis in Venezuela. Government incompetence has caused massive blackouts all across the country, but the piece argues that over-reliance on hydropower (now suffering from a huge drought) and other...
by David Brooks | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog
NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown did a show about Corbin Park, aka Blue Mountain Forest Association, a roughly 25,000-acre private hunting club in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire (it occupies more than half the town of Croydon, and that’s just part of it). It has...