by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | Gov-Local, None
If we have to suffer through a crummy winter, it might as well be a record crummy winter – and it was. The National Weather Service says that Concord has its warmest ever “meteorological winter,” the period from December through February, since records were first kept...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog
I have a pleasant little feature story in the Monitor today about a Leap Day Baby born in Concord, which includes a little back-of-envelope calculation about how many such people live in New Hampshire: Since there is one Feb. 29 every 1,461 days – with slight...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
What if you could give your next child fluorescent hair? Using the topic of this month’s Science Cafe Concord, you may be able to, in the not-very-distant future. “It can lead to designer babies – a term that everybody has used, but the word ‘designer’ doesn’t always...
by David Brooks | Feb 29, 2016 | Blog
Here’s an advance look at my column which will run in tomorrow’s Concord Monitor and Nashua Telegraph – maybe it will prod you into attending Tuesday’s Science Cafe Concord – 6 p.m. at The Draft Sports Bar. Free, of course. CRISPR and its...
by David Brooks | Feb 28, 2016 | Economy-Business, None
Recent patents issued to companies and inventors in New Hampshire include: Allegro Microsystems, Worcester, Mass., has been assigned a patent (9,265,104) developed by two co-inventors for “electronic circuits and techniques for maintaining a consistent power delivered...