by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Newsletter
As we all know, the internet is a series of tubes, and the most important tubes lie on the ocean floor, carrying data by the boatload (so to speak) from country to country. These tubes can be disrupted, however, by anything from ship anchors to leaks to the same sort...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody in New England – by which I mean me and people I know – has heard of the “January thaw”. This is the expectation that during the middle of this month, temperatures will rise above freezing long enough that skiers will get grumpy and...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH sent out a press release about some interesting research on materials – basically alerting the geometry of shapes that are “chiral,” or asymmetric in particular ways, to create lighter protective foams (or, to be specific, chiral auxetic cellular...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Newsletter
Bob Sanders, longtime reporter at New Hampshire Business Reporter, took a look at the upcoming sale of FairPoint and some reassuring news for those who were around in 2008 when Verizon unloaded its Northern New England landlines. There won’t be a change in service or...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Newsletter
One of the most enjoyable things I do each year is help with the fundraiser for the FIRST Robotics team at Souhegan High School. (My son was on the team years ago.) My job is to help the kids put on a skit before the professional comedians come on stage, and this...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Newsletter
Many proposed laws seek to move New Hampshire forward but one being considered today that wants to move us sideways – into the Atlantic time zone. The bill (HB209) would shift New Hampshire away from the time zone used by New York City and Washington, D.C., to the...
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