by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A Dartmouth grad got a Super Bowl ring, reports the college. But for geeky reasons. She is a quantitative analyst for the Eagles, a numbers guru who helps make sense of the nearly infinite data points available to her employer. She and her colleagues make data-driven...
by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2025 | Newsletter
If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter and want to subscribe, add your email at the Granite Geek blog: granitegeek.concordmonitor.com Suggestions or comments? Drop me a line: dbrooks@cmonitor.com I’m on Bluesky and Mastodon (the newsie.social server) these...
by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Bloomberg Green has a story about heat domes, like the one that roasted us last week, and how their behavior is confounding weather forecasters. (The whole story is behind a paywall but you can read most of it if you subscribe to their Green Daily newsletter.)...
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
OK, they’re not really backpacks, they’re solar-powered tags that let UNH researchers see where the salt marsh sparrows are going as part of preservation efforts. Sensors in the field spick up signals as the birds fly by. NHPR has the story here. The...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Canary Media looked at New England’s response to the recent heat dome and said, as I have, that 21st-century energy (solar, batteries) saved our bacon: As temperatures across New England soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, solar panels and...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: Her talk is Thursday, July 9. Nancy-Lee Rodden was given an unexpected task after she got an accounting degree in college and started working. “One of my first jobs was to figure out how much it cost to build a space suit,” said Rodden, a native of Nashua. The...