by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Via in-vitro fertilization, a 57-year-old New Hampshire woman has given birth. Definitely a state record. Concord Monitor story is here.
by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a 4-MW solar farm being built in and among a 10-are wild blueberry farm in Maine. It’s partly an experiment to determine the best practices for “agrivoltaic” systems, which combine solar with farming lowbush blueberries. ” One of...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Determining snow depth and water content is important, especially in places like the increasingly-drought-stricken Western U.S., but it’s not easy. Scrambling around mountains with measuring sticks and snow-melting equipment isn’t very efficient, so...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College has set up a clever tournament to help teach students and staff not to fall for phishing emails. It seems like most major corporate and government tech breaches occur not because of some cool software hack but because somebody clicked on the wrong...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Vtdigger, one of two statewide independent news organizations in Vermont, has a story about REMUS 600, a 16-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle programmed that was tested below the ice on Willoughby Lake by engineers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
This week New Hampshire will mark a grim anniversary: A full year of COVID-19 deaths. On March 23, 2020, the state’s first official death was announced due to what we were calling “the novel coronavirus.” The virus hasn’t seemed novel for a long time now but the...