by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The controversy that erupted in September over the West Lebanon public library’s participation in a privacy network known as Tor has led to a proposed state law to make it clear libraries are free to “allow the installation and use of cryptographic privacy platforms”...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
If you are, like me, at an age where AARP solicitations constitute half of your mail, then you’ve probably noticed that you can’t read highway signs at night as easily as you once could. Turns out this is a pretty complicated issue, which is why it’s the subject of a...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The news that genetic modification of mosquitoes is being tested as a way to kill off the pests and stem the spread of diseases – an idea that is getting more attention because of the horrifying Zika virus – raises a question for us in New England: Why not use it to...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Vermont does some pretty weird stuff, as we all know, but recently it did something that was both weird and geeky: Studying whether to run its government using the technology behind bitcoin. The answer was “no,” but not because it was a silly question. National...
by David Brooks | Jan 31, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Recent patents issued to New Hampshire companies and individuals include: Multinational Resources, Newfields, N.H., has been assigned a patent (9,240,291) developed by two co-inventors for a rugged keypad. The co-inventors are Christopher Wolfe, Derry, N.H., and Steve...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Mathematically speaking, “one man, one vote” sounds about as exciting as “1 = 1.” Yet it turns out that something so simple can produce a Nobel Prize in economics, not to mention a slew of graduate school statistics homework. “Our class spent three weeks just on...
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