by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As a rule I don’t pay much attention to surveys of people’s attitudes about things that don’t exist yet, because their vague assumptions about what’s involved (based on the usually vague wording in the survey) have nothing to do with reality....
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the difficulties in getting people like you – and I suppose me, too – to be on guard against bad guys online, is that we are not quite as clever as we think. “In graduate school, I worked in a computer lab managing systems, and what fascinated me is how people...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service. Climatic outcomes at lower latitudes could be, in part, affected by changes to microbial communities in the Arctic, where the thawing of permafrost changes how microbes contribute to global greenhouse gas production. To further...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
NHPR crunched the numbers and found that more New Hampshire residents died in 2020 than any year on record, thanks to COVID-19. The story is here. An interesting tidbit is that not only did more people die, more died at home: “Medical providers cautioned early...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 28 to April 4. *** En Technology Assigned Patent for Digital Audio Communication, Control En Technology, Keene, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,966,039,...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A New Hampshire company that has disposed of radioactive material for decades is part of a joint venture that recently won a $54 million contract to decommission one of the few non-military nuclear ships ever built. “The Savannah is a very, very interesting ship. It...