by David Brooks | Dec 21, 2015 | Blog
The legal situation for the crowdsourced taxi firm Uber in Concord is a little squishy, as it is in many parts of New Hampshire, but the service is slowly expanding anyway, reports the Concord Monitor: Local cab companies have only noticed a minimal Uber presence so...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2015 | Blog
Terrafugia, the Woburn, Mass. firm that wants to make a flying car (“roadable aircraft” is their preferred term) has gotten FAA approval to test fly a one-tenth-sized model of their next-generation effort. This is not their original design, now called the...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog
Today’s depressing weather chart is shown above, taken from this analysis by Climate Central. It shows that on average, winter temperatures in New Hampshire (presumably meaning Concord, where the National Weather Service has its official site) have risen four...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2015 | Blog
My former newspaper, the Nashua Telegraph, has a big story today about the opening of the new Star Wars movie (as does my current paper and every other paper in the contiguous United States). Alas, I expect Nashua to be picketed by enraged geeks, because the big...
by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2015 | Blog
From UNH: American chestnut has been under attack for a century from a persistent chestnut blight that has killed trees from Georgia to Maine and west to the Ohio River Valley. A potentially blight-resistant American chestnut tree plantation planned for the University...
by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2015 | Blog
Nature has a list of its 20 favorite science books of the year (why 20? if they weren’t choosing the obvious 10 you’d think they’d pick a more scientific number like 16 (2^4)) – and it struck me that 19 of the titles include a colon. Examples...
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