by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it, a famous person once quipped, but that’s not entirely true: We measure the weather like crazy, and measurement is the first step to control. Every morning, for example, I check a rain gauge next...
by David Brooks | Mar 8, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
There’s an interesting experiment going on in New Hampshire right now, as we figure out how to shift our electric utilities to some sort of futuristic energy-providing thingamajig that can help us create a world of distributed energy. The experiment involves New...
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2016 | Economy-Business, None
The following patents were recently assigned to companies or individuals in New Hampshire. Allegro Microsystems, Worcester, Mass., has been assigned a patent (9,270,171) developed by three co-inventors for “methods and apparatus for DC-DC converter having dithered...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | Gov-Local, None
If we have to suffer through a crummy winter, it might as well be a record crummy winter – and it was. The National Weather Service says that Concord has its warmest ever “meteorological winter,” the period from December through February, since records were first kept...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
What if you could give your next child fluorescent hair? Using the topic of this month’s Science Cafe Concord, you may be able to, in the not-very-distant future. “It can lead to designer babies – a term that everybody has used, but the word ‘designer’ doesn’t always...
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