by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There is, of course, endless discussion both online and in real life about people’s addiction to their smartphones and many solutions being proposed: apps that dampen your usage, social compacts among friends to cut back, boxes with time locks to hold the phone...
by David Brooks | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: University of New Hampshire brewing science students have taken a trip back in history to brew a butternut squash pale ale using squash grown as part of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station’s cucurbit (a.k.a. gourd) breeding program. The brew,...
by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last weekend Manchester celebrated Ralph Baer, a local boy led the team that created the first home video game, Magnavox Odyssey, while working for Sanders Associates (now BAE) in Nashua. Part of the celebration was playing a giant ping-pong game in honor of his first...
by David Brooks | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Dave Solomon at the Union-Leader talked to the new owners of New Hampshire’s two coal-fired power plants (or three, depending on how you count the twin Schiller plants in Portsmouth) and says they’re going to keep running because they make enough money...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From Ethan DeWitt, the Monitor’s State House reporter: The revolt has been a quiet one. For years, advocates in a small circle of New England states have entertained a radical idea: throwing off the tyrannical yoke of Eastern Standard Time and choosing a...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Are your ears bored? You can listen to me talk about this column with Features Editor Sarah Pearson by clicking right here.) You may have heard that we are facing an insect apocalypse, a portent of the collapse of the global food chain and resulting planetary chaos....
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