by David Brooks | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
We’re pretty smug about wildfires here in the Northeast, where it’s generally cool and damp enough to save us from Western-style conflagrations. But that smugness is wearing thin. The wildfires in equally cool and damp Quebec and Nova Scotia have...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through June 18. *** Controlled-Impedance Compliant Cable Termination ARDENT...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
It sounds like some sort of gimmick or maybe a typo, but the CEO of Walden Mutual Bank says its new 100-year CD makes sense even if you don’t plan to live for a century. “Alongside a portfolio of stocks and bonds and such, it is an economically rational investment,”...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
These days we only go into the Boston area to dance (Boston Swing Central in Cambridge), although I might visit Fenway this summer since the Sox are lousy so I can get tickets. Here’s another possibility: Boston is one of 14 US and Canadian cities that host an...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The question of whether biomass energy – burning wood in some form to use the heat and power – is good or bad for fighting climate change has been debated in forest-filled New England for years. It’s a close cal: I was in favor of biomass in 2016,...
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