by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
We tree-hugging types face a conundrum when it comes to our love of local food and farms because it’s easy for agriculture to be an environmental bad guy. For example, I’m a big supporter of my local chicken farm – their automatic egg-sorting machine is a Rube...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Public Radio reports that a judge has “again rejected an attempt to use a competing harms defense for five protesters who tried to stop a train bringing coal to the Merrimack Station power plant in 2019.” Judge Andrew Schulman … had...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 12 to Sept. 19. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Elastic Local, Global Scheduling for Cellular Infrastructure Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it. New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The company says it plans...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I have written several times over the years about the fascinating pattern known as Benford’s Law, which describes the weird pattern in the distribution of the first digit of numbers found in certain large datasets. It was famously noticed because the pages of...
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