by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Public Radio reports that a judge has “again rejected an attempt to use a competing harms defense for five protesters who tried to stop a train bringing coal to the Merrimack Station power plant in 2019.” Judge Andrew Schulman … had...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 12 to Sept. 19. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Elastic Local, Global Scheduling for Cellular Infrastructure Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it. New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The company says it plans...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I have written several times over the years about the fascinating pattern known as Benford’s Law, which describes the weird pattern in the distribution of the first digit of numbers found in certain large datasets. It was famously noticed because the pages of...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Mount Washington Observatory has a Science Cafe-like series called Science in the Mountains which has, like SCNH, gone online during the pandemic. The next one seems particularly interesting: “Charting the Last Great Global Warming: Ice Age Lessons for a...
by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
You will be glad to hear that I have figured out a sure-fire retirement scheme once I’m no longer getting the huge paychecks handed out to newspaper reporters: Breeding praying mantises! No, wait, hear me out. Aside from being the coolest insect (dragonfly aficionados...