by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog
It sounded like a heavy truck rumbling past or a load of snow sliding off the roof, depending on your point of view, but Monday’s small earthquake near Contoocook was actually a reflection of how quiet New Hampshire is, earthquake-wise. “Why don’t we have more...
by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog
The following federal patents were recently assigned to companies in New Hampshire. Bauer Hockey, Exeter, has been assigned an ornamental design patent (D750,842) developed by Jacques Durocher, St-Jerome, Canada, for an ornamental design for an “outer shell of a...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2016 | Blog
(UPDATE: After I posted this, a reader tweeted that he had seen table salt labeled as “non-GMO”. Table salt! You have to admire such thinking outside the box.) AP reports that General Mills has backed down from tussling with the Green Mountain State over...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2016 | Blog
The Monitor has a good story today about the concern that prisons have with drones dropping contraband into the prison yard: “On nine separate occasions over the last six months, corrections workers spotted a drone flying over the (state prison in Concord),...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog
When it comes to invasive species, we care about species from somewhere else that are invading here. But it cuts both ways, as AP reports: Sweden has asked the European Union for help to stop an invasion of American lobsters, saying they could wipe out their European...
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