by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Newsletter
Downtown Concord is preparing for life without Concord Steam, a private company that has burned wood ships and sent steam heat underground to some 180 buildings for seven decades. Inefficiency (as much as 50 percent of the steam is lost through leaks), old equipment...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Newsletter
The Mirai botnet that launched a DDoS attack on Dyn in October, bringing down some hefty sites (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) for a few hours, was probably created by a Rutgers students who wanted to boost his DDoS-thwarting security firm. Or so says well-known security...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Newsletter
From AP: Sweden isn’t giving up on a long-running battle with the U.S. and Canada over lobsters that have turned up in Swedish waters. Officials with Sweden told The Associated Press that their country is working on a new proposal about how to deal with American...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Newsletter
My column from two weeks ago about Dartmouth post-doc Michael Barany’s research into why mathematicians love blackboards is one of the most popular things I’ve ever written, at least in a recurring-online sense. This week is showed up on reddit’s...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe Concord discussed electric cars on Tuesday – it was a full house, despite the snow – and I think the best part came from a 97-year-old audience members who recalled starting his dad’s Model T, which required hand-cranking the engine, and...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The newest apparatus at Concord bar Area 23 draws less attention than the pool table or dartboards, but co-owner Kirk McNeil says the bitcoin machine he has tucked into a corner serves the same purpose: Attracting customers. “It’s a business move,” McNeil said of the...