by David Brooks | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I have been measuring daily precipitation for eight years for CoCoRaHS, a “citizen science” weather data-gathering program. The biggest thing I have learned is to not take snow measurements very seriously. The days are long gone when I’d brag that my...
by David Brooks | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Time has taken its toll on Concord’s most unusual “farm,” the hydroponic trailer that has provided lettuce to a Marriott hotel for almost five years, but fans of high-tech leafy greens needn’t fret – a replacement is on its way. “It needed to be rehabbed quite a bit....
by David Brooks | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(Give you ears a treat: You can listen to me talk about this story on the low-budget Granite Geek podcast) Right now in Concord, we are living in a meteorological puzzle: The National Weather Service says this is the wettest August since records began being kept 150...
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...
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