by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2016 | Natural Sciences, Science-Technology
Massachusetts, as you may have heard, is freaking out over plans to put 150 rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the state’s biggest reservoir, yet here in New Hampshire we already have a Rattlesnake Island, on Lake Winnipesaukee. Plus we have Rattlesnake Hill...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The changing climate is going to affect a lot of things around us in the coming years, but perhaps nothing more than the most overlooked (quite literally) item in local government’s quiver of tools, the lowly road culvert. “Recent trends show that we are getting...
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...
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