by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A small craft distillery in the tiny town of Windsor, N.H., has switched to making hand sanitizer. “Legally, we kind of weren’t supposed to be doing this, but no one cares right now,” said Erin Bell, Silo’s chief distiller, on Thursday as she was getting ready...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote about (but didn’t visit – such is reporting in the COVID era, sigh) the telemedicine hub at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the Monitor. Telemedicine was going to be the topic of this week’s Science Cafe, so I turned it into a story...
by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
From New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, March 21: As COVID-19 becomes more common in our communities, testing every person presenting with mild symptoms of fever or respiratory illness becomes impractical and does not change how a person’s illness...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m going through books on my shelf, looking for things to discard. Reading Rudy Rucker’s “Mind Tools” I came across this tidbit, driving home how tiny viruses are: “The Earth’s diameter is about 10^7 meters, and a virus is about...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: Since I posted this two days ago, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is asking people to stay off the AT, even for day hikes. Hiking the Appalachian Trail might seen like a perfect way to get through the COVID shutdown of life – I’m laid off, so...
Return to the Concord Monitor