by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded and, once again, nobody from New Hampshire got the most coveted prize in academia. GraniteGeek has long been a big Ig Nobel fan. I have attended more than a dozen of the goofy events at Ha-vahhd, and I brought the founder and...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. Department of Energy has given a $1.2 million, three-year grant to Dartmouth engineering professor Daniel Olson, who is investigating the use of biomass to produce next-generation fuels and chemicals. The goal is to use C. thermocellum, a type of bacteria...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 6 to Sept. 12. *** Deka Products Assigned Patent for System for Remote Patient Care Deka Products, Manchester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,109,934, initially...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the interesting human-factor issues in email spam is typos and grammar errors. As you may now, they are often badly written/typed on purpose as a gullibility filter: People who aren’t turned off by the obvious mistakes are more likely to fall for the...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The climate emergency is creating a lot of awful results but I really hate one of its lesser products: More and stronger poison ivy. I am pretty sensitive to the <expletive deleted> stuff. It’s been known for a while that more CO2 in the atmosphere makes the...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Maybe I shouldn’t tempt the gods by saying this out loud but New Hampshire had a darn good summer, weather-wise. Yeah, it was miserably hot and humid sometimes, not New England-y at all, and it was alarmingly dry in the first half and too wet in the second half. North...