by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I don’t usually point to preprints, or papers released without peer review, but this one on medRxiv, the preprint server for health sciences, is interesting: “For COVID-19-like viral parameters, a test with 40% false negatives and immediate result might...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s actually not a vaccine but a “pre-exposure prophylaxis” that delivers antibodies to you instead of triggering the immune system to make them, which I think means it would have to be given every year. It was developed in Massachusetts although...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The IEEE has put up a historical marker on the Dartmouth campus honoring the creation of BASIC. Dartmouth News has a story here. The IEEE Milestone marker at the Collis Center to commemorate the creation of the BASIC programming language in the building’s...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire’s Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center will receive $2.97 million in grants to conduct a first-of-its-kind randomized study looking at the effectiveness of outdoor behavioral health (OBH), or wilderness therapy, a...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s hard to imagine anything less like the high-finance world of institutional bond portfolios than burying burnt wood in the ground but as Frederick Horton tells it, they’re more similar than you’d think. Horton, a Maine native who has spent a career in finance, is...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When the lockdowns started there was lots of joking about how we’d see a baby boom in 9 months created by bored couples. The reality is quite different, as reported by the Concord Monitor: In December of 2020, nine months after the state’s first stay-at-home...