by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire legislators have jumped on the cell-phones-are-bad-for-kids bandwagon (which is a legitimate bandwagon, BTW) but they did it in a such a sweeping and vague way that everybody’s confused. Basically the law says that cell phones aren’t allowed...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Gather round, dear readers, and let me tell you the story of a nasty invasive insect. No, wait, don’t run away — this is a happy story. And it involves a cute dog named Izzy. Our story concerns the Asian longhorned beetle, a beetle native to east Asia that, no...
by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
EDITOR’S NOTE: There will be no Granite Geek next week. I know that’s a big blow, so as compensation I’m rerunning this piece from 2020 that discusses perhaps my favor NH history story, the Gravity Research Foundation. I am happy to say that the...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
For two decades I’ve been writing about the transition that New Hampshire agriculture has gone through, from a few large farms growing a single crop (apples, for example) that is sold en masse to wholsalers, to many small farms that grow a bunch of stuff...
by David Brooks | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In what I regard as a pleasant surprise, the state legislature (a body of which I am not usually fond) did a clever thing this session by making one of those easy-to-overlook changes that can improve life. “A lot of states are looking at doing this. New...
by David Brooks | Aug 11, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Aug. 10. Power Budget Calculation Using Power Headroom PARALLEL WIRELESS,...