by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I installed the Tor browser at home last night. I had been thinking of using this privacy & anonymizing system for a long time, at least since I wrote about the debate over whether NH libraries can support the system, but never got around to it. Now Congress and...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a heated debate about whether towns should have moved their state elections on March 14 due to a blizzard. About a third of them did – which is unprecedented in New Hampshire history. There may be some lawsuits as a result, so the Monitor figured...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called Kraig Biocraft Laboratories in Michigan says it has cleared “a key hurdle to mass produce spider silk in Vietnam via a transgenic silkworm capable of spinning recombinant spider silk.” Cool, yes, but what’s the New Hampshire angle?...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Newsletter
Life is busy and you can’t always get to places you’d like to get to … such as the monthly Science Cafe New Hampshire events in Nashua and Concord. Happily for you, the Science Cafe Concord is filmed by ConcordTV, the city’s community channel....
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
“After three decades of trying to spread the joy of science through polysyllabic newspaper columns, I’m beginning to think that I should be flushing mercury down the toilet on YouTube, instead.” That’s the start of my Monitor column today (you can...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2017 | Newsletter
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Emily Corwin wondered if alteration in the seasons from climate change means she can plant her seeds early. An excellent question – click here to find the answer. Oh, all right, I’ll tell you: No, it doesn’t, but...