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...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2016 | Natural Sciences, Science-Technology
Massachusetts, as you may have heard, is freaking out over plans to put 150 rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the state’s biggest reservoir, yet here in New Hampshire we already have a Rattlesnake Island, on Lake Winnipesaukee. Plus we have Rattlesnake Hill...
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