by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody knows the sort of companies you find on a downtown main street: Funky retailers, novel eateries, bars, music venues and professional offices. In Concord, you can add something of a surprise: Makers of very high-end computer boards. That’s the start of...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth researcher Erich Osterberg is researching surface melting in Greenland via ice cores and other fieldwork. I talked to him about his work for my Monitor column today, which you can read right here. Trigger warning: It is realistic about climate change, which...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH takes December off, but when we return in January the Concord event will discuss electric cars. The prod for that topic is the arrival of the Chevrolet Bolt, the first mass-market electric car from a U.S. automaker (Tesla, while a wonder to behold,...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor whose work on image analysis and digital forensics has been the subject of plenty of well-deserved media reports over the years (including several from me, some as recently as last June), has been named a Fellow of the National...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
The massive New Hampshire legislature (third-largest elected body in English-speaking world) is gearing up for its 2017 session, and part of that involves lawymakers filing LSRs (legislative service requests), which are sort of placeholders saying that they plan to...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2016 | Newsletter
The USDA’s Forest Service has launched an intriguing data project that estimates – nay, gives an exact answer – to a question few of us have asked: How many trees does my state have, per person? For New Hampshire, the answer is 2,857. I wonder if...