by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As a loyal reader, you know that I am in the midst of a drive to create a highway historical marker honoring the creation of the computer language BASIC and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System. (Here’s a reminder, if you need it.) I gathered more than enough...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(Squirrels and chipmunks wiped out my raspberries and peaches and blueberries this year – they are a plague. Road kill is justifiable payback.) The population explosion of squirrels and other small rodents in New Hampshire is proving to be a nuisance in more...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Veoride, an Indiana-based company that runs dockless bike operations around the country, including at New England College in Henniker, says its biggest New Hampshire operation hit 10,000 rides in two months. The company announced the number on its blog, saying it hit...
by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Revisiting some older data, researchers at the University of New Hampshire discovered new information about the shape of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – large-scale eruptions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun – that could one day help...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(I wrote this last year for the Monitor. I expected to get lots of praise from other commuters – instead, all I got was “why do you hate children?!?!?” emails.) No disrespect to the nation’s public-school transportation network, but I hate it in late...
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: At this event I will have a petition to sign, supporting my push to create a state historical marker honoring the birth of BASIC. That makes two reasons to show up!) Every cat owner knows that felines don’t obey the rules of physics. Every chef knows that dry...
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