by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
(This story ran in Wednesday’s Monitor, but I couldn’t post it yesterday because of GraniteGeek’s web hosting problems) If you hope to unwrap a new drone for Christmas, be ready to register with the government – an idea that isn’t necessarily...
by David Brooks | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog
There is a saying that “demographics is destiny,” meaning that everything which human society does depends on the makeup of its population. If you’re a New Hampshire employer, you may want to read this story, which ran in Saturday’s Monitor:...
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog
The telling part of the Wired.com story about Coinbase releasing a bitcoin debit card is this: Coinbase, the Silicon Valley startup that operates digital bitcoin wallets for over 2.8 million people across the globe, about 20 percent of the transactions on its network...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
Transcontinental Space Weather Balloon Launch is a pretty good headline, especially when it partly involves high school and college students in New Hampshire. As I write about in an upcoming Monitor story (am I allowed to scoop myself?), high school students who do...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
Speaking of genetic modification of living things, as we were a couple posts ago, the FDA today approved the sale of genetically modified salmon. The salmon, which grows much faster than unmodified fish, is the first GMO non-plant to be approved for human consumption...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2015 | Blog
New Hampshire Business Review held a “cybersecurity” forum recently (yes, that term is still used – I kind of like it, actually) that looks like it was pretty good, judging from the paper’s report on it (read it here). The headline gives the...
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