by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created BASIC and DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the whole idea of computing and networks, has died. He was 96. Dartmouth News has a long remembrance with some historic photos. I interviewed Kurtz via email in 2018...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The NHIAA – New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association – has added esports to the list of competitive high school varsity sorts, reports the Monitor in this story. NHIAA has designated two games for official tournaments hosted at SNHU’s Esports...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Nov. 17. *** Optical Identifier and System for Reading Same NEURSCIENCES...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A self-described Masshole is behind the brilliantly funny move of The Onion – for years the best satire site around – buying that fetid cesspool of ignorance and anger, Infowars. So says the Boston Globe.
by David Brooks | Nov 14, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
An analysis from the site Climate Matters quantifies what is already obvious to those of us pining for the days when there was ice skating before Thanksgiving: winters in the Northeast have warmed faster than just about anywhere. The whole analysis, with...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Boston Globe has a well-reported but depressing article about the effect that the warming Gulf of Maine is having on kelp forests, which are almost up there with coral reefs in terms of supporting ecosystems. Researchers found temperatures have become too warm,...