by David Brooks | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
NHPR has story about plans to built a grease-recycling facility in Plymouth to help community sewage-treatment plants deal with FOG, which stands for fats, oils and grease: FOG, which comes from places like commercial kitchens, can cause costly, unsanitary sewer...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2018 | Newsletter
As you may know, I am pushing to create more geek-related historical highway markers in New Hampshire, and I’m starting with to honor the creation of BASIC and the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, aided by Tom Kurtz, who along with John Kemeny developed both them...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When I was a kid, futuristic visions of self-driving cars always assumed they would need all sorts of wires and gizmos installed in the roadway to give the car information about where it was, what it was doing, and where it should go. We didn’t think computers...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you scroll through the list of the 255 official highway historical markers maintained by the state of New Hampshire, you will find 21 bridges, two memorials to the 45th parallel, several references to Daniel Webster and a few oddities, like the sign labeled...
by David Brooks | Aug 15, 2018 | Newsletter
A poorly understood disease affecting white pines is forcing Concord to cut virtually all the trees off a small parcel of land on Loudon Road, reflecting growing difficulties with urban trees like that seen last year when the city had to remove the red pines from...
by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: The recent launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station marks the beginning of a seven-year mission to learn more about the sun and solar wind — the energetic particles it creates that can pose...
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