by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(I wrote most of this a year ago, but the state Department of Environmental Services tweeted about it this week as part of ocean environmental awareness, so let’s remind ourselves of this fun story.) On March 6, 2011, more than 4 million plastic disks were...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve long been a fan of the Internet History Podcast which is, you’ll be surprised to hear, a podcast about the history of the Internet. The most recent episode (listen here) has a long interview with Chris Messina, who was involved in lots of interesting...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Unseasonably cold weather this year hurt New Hampshire’s maple syrup industry, which produced about 148,000 gallons of syrup, the smallest amount of syrup in five years. The data reflect another fact which might surprise people here: New Hampshire is not a major...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m old enough to have avoided smartphone addiction – my habits were set in stone before they were invented – but I’ve commented along with everybody else that these phones are altering homo sapiens before our very eyes, turning us into...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
My article about the new historical marker in New Hampshire honoring the creation of BASIC made it to the front page of Slashdot. Among the comments is the one above, which probably goes a bit too far! In case the JPG is hard to read, it says: After the Old Man of the...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The state’s three biggest electric utilities are proposing to create a dozen fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along interstates in New Hampshire, using money from the Volkswagen emissions-rigging settlement to create the state’s first such network open to...
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