by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2016 | None, Politics-Election
The anti-establishment success of candidates in last week’s presidential primary has produced a lot of deep political analysis about voter sentiment, but it raises a question: Was this a sign that technology is disrupting yet another established industry – in this...
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 9, 2016 | Politics-Election, Voters-Activism
Want another reason to be excited about today’s primary, beyond the whole helping-choose-the-leader-of-the-free-world thing? How about this: You can legally take a presidential ballot selfie for the first time! Last summer, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2016 | Economy-Business, None
The following federal patents were awarded to inventors and companies in New Hampshire through Feb. 5. Silicon Laboratories, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (9,246,500) developed by Michael H. Perrott, Nashua, N.H., for a “time-to-voltage converter using a...
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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