by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Newsletter
An interesting discovery by UNH professor Xiaowei Teng could lead to a better, safer battery – something the world really needs – but before we get to the details, check out a comment he made about the lab’s multi-year effort: “We found the material with this unique...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Indoor agriculture is an intriguing concept – which is why it was the topic of discussion for Science Cafe Concord in October – so I was drawn to a story in The Sunday Telegraph of Nashua by Don Himsel about a non-farming family looking to get involved in...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Newsletter
I’m not a fan of lists of people put together by publications because they tend to be advertising-related gimmicks (“40 under 40!” “50 over 50!” “72 Under 72 Inches!”) but when somebody from New Hampshire shows up on a list...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Newsletter
Life is better in a world where everybody trusts everybody – for example, if you could always leave your car keys in your unlocked car, you’d never lose them again! But that’s not a world filled with humans, or pretty much any species in our...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Newsletter
The Brookings compared economic growth (GDP) and carbon emission from electricity for all the states between 2000 and 2014, and found that 33 have “decoupled” emissions from economic growth – including New Hampshire. You can see the NH chart above,...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The InterOperability Lab at UNH has a national, even international, reputation as a good place for testing and certification of network devices and helping the development of standards. So I’m happy to see that they’ve begun a program focusing on security...
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