by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(NOTE: I used to live in coal country, hence that potentially confusing headline referencing a Tennessee Ernie Ford song) There are a couple of drawbacks to New Hampshire geology. One is that we don’t have fossils – they were all melted by our igneous rocks or scraped...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth Engineering has been named a collaborator on a new National Science Foundation effort to locate Antarctica’s oldest ice and learn more about how the Earth’s climate has changed throughout history. The Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX),...
by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Interesting story in the Monitor about pushback against police surveillance of the public. The whole article is here. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Atlas of Surveillance uses public information and an army of student journalists to document the tools that local...
by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Until now, research showed Mount Washington’s summit had not yet tipped towards a significant warming trend. But a new study of the Mount Washington Observatory’s data set reveals summit annual temperatures are increasing at a statistically significant rate. You...
by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont, like many places, is looking at how to pay for roads as we get more electric vehicles, which don’t pay gasoline tax. About 20 states have an annual EV “registration fee” – New Hampshire is considering one – but that’s a...
by David Brooks | Dec 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 20, 2021, to Jan. 2, 2022. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Federated X2 Gateway Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,206,584,...
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