by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This year the little town Chesterfield partnered with Consolidated Communications to bring fiber-to-the-home to the towns. The Keene Sentinel reports that a number of other towns in the region would like to do the same thing (story is here): Officials from several...
by David Brooks | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is embarrassing! I just learned that a vital bit of Internet history happened in Nashua in 1994, when I was a reporter at the city’s newspaper who was writing about the online world, yet I’ve never heard of it before. According to a 1994 article in...
by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is the time of year that legislators in the New Hampshire state government start the process of submitting bills. First the 400 representatives and 24 state senators draft a Legislative Service Request, which is basically a general idea for a law. It gets whipped...
by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
If Elon Musk ever makes it to Mars, he’ll grab his phone and start tweeting. Frances Rivera-Hernandez, on the other hand, would grab a shovel. “I want to dig some pits to see if the ground ice is there and how much,” said Rivera-Hernandez, a post-doc in Earth science...
by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Where do languages come from? Is the Internet changing English? Can I split infinitives? Why do some languages have masculine/feminine nouns but we don’t? Why is “enough” spelled so weird? Come and ask your questions about the science linguistics – a topic we’ve...
by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A few days ago I wrote about the way that engineered timber, a.k.a. mass timber, can replace steel and sometimes concrete in buildings, which creates big greenhouse-gas benefits. Here’s the item, if you didn’t see it. I mentioned that New Hampshire is...
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