by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It was a highlight of the summer of 1979: a local pilot’s daring flight under the huge railroad trestle that once spanned the Souhegan River in Greenville. Now, 40 years later, we can experience local inventor/pilot Bronson Potter’s legendary feat, as...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has issued new proposed guidelines about allowable levels of a type of pollution in drinking water, which gives me an excuse to run this edited version of a 2016 column I wrote when the subject first came up: This has brought into regular discourse a...
by David Brooks | Jun 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The news that came out this week about Oracle moving Dyn’s DNS service to the cloud will have an uncertain effect in Manchester – as the Union-Leader has reported, there have been some layoffs and, ominously, the company “was negotiating to extend...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2019 | Newsletter
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport is joining a number of airports around the world offering an interesting service for the vision-impaired called Aira. I’ll have more about this in my column next week. Aira has staff that provide an always-available...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This column ran in Feb. 2018 and since then the technology for deepfake videos has only gotten better – meaning worse for people. An article in Motherboard today points out that there’s a version which “removes” clothing from photos of women...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2019 | Newsletter
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing is bringing out a lot of space nostalgia and events. Here are a few that I know of in Concord, with more details to come: I will moderate a Science Cafe-like event at the Discovery Center on July 16th, the anniversary...
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