by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have launched a research project that aims to “re-domesticate” the superfood quinoa in Northern New England, giving the region’s farmers new...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The best thing in all of computing might be the 418 status code, an offshoot of a longrunning joke called the Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol (wikipedia, of course, can explain that) which plays off the kids song I’m A Little Teapot. It states: Any attempt...
by David Brooks | Aug 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve done stories about folks making geo-tagged maps with photos and data – here’s a guy making one with sounds: For three weeks, the Berklee College of Music professor will traverse the national forest, ferreting out the best sounds with which to...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in January I wrote about a Tufts math professor’s push to use mathematics to more objectively define voting districts and thus push back against gerrymandering. It was a story about House Bill 320 would would have established a commission to give the...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center: The Perseid Meteor Showers return this weekend, starting Friday (Aug. 11). The waning moon will wash out fainter meteors, but as this meteor shower is known for its high prevalence of fireballs, there should still be a...
by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College ranks highly in a new measure of the impact of academic research on global innovation, according to the Nature Index 2017 Innovation supplement. The index examines how often research articles from top science journals are cited in third-party patents...