by David Brooks | May 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Many people have a favorite type of insect. Butterflies and dragonflies are perennial favorites, but you can find folks with a soft spot in their heart for almost anything, from walking sticks to dung beetles. Me? I like bumblebees. There’s something about their...
by David Brooks | May 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1999 at the iconic New Hampshire gaming arcade Funspot, a guy named Billy Mitchell achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Since then, his claim and other of his arcade records have been...
by David Brooks | May 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service Patents assigned in New Hampshire from April 26 to May 3 Position Imaging Assigned Patent for Virtual Reality Mobile Devices Position Imaging, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,631,131, initially filed Feb. 1, 2019)...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy column has a good look at those UFO tapes released by the Pentagon. (Spoiler: all are easily explained by non-alien reality.) You can read it here. And this seems a good time to re-run part of a piece I wrote clear back in 2012....
by David Brooks | May 1, 2020 | Blog
Portsmouth Regional Hospital announced today that it is participating in a national study to determine if plasma from convalescent, or recovered, COVID-19 patients may benefit individuals currently hospitalized with severe or life-threatening cases of the virus. As...
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