by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 17 to Jan. 24. *** Nonvologic Assigned Patent for Chemical Detection Mixture with Integrated Circuit Microsensor Elements Nonvologic, Meredith, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2021 | Blog
Since it started last summer the Monitor’s weekly COVID tracker has sometimes had to present depressing data. Here’s the latest: At our current rate of vaccination, New Hampshire won’t get close to “herd immunity” until November of 2022. That’s right: Not 2021, but...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
f there’s any single thing that marks somebody as a geek in the original sense, it’s space travel. Computers were once the sign of true geekdom but now everybody is into computers at some level. Excitement about getting beyond Earth’s gravity is now the defining geek...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A stretch of tangled, mostly invasive plants that has taken over the Merrimack River riverbank by Fort Eddy Plaza in Concord will be mowed down this winter as the first step of possible eradication, and with any luck, the owners of nearby land will join in. “I’m...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Bristol, a 3,000-person town halfway between the Lakes Region and Hanover, is connecting many of its homes to a fiber network, using money from the pandemic’s CARES Act – the Union-Leader has a story here. I wrote about its early stirrings in 2018....
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter, Science-Technology
This post ran in 2016 when Wikipedia turned 15. Now that Wikipedia has turned 20, I figured I would run it again. This column concerns a number – 15, the number of years that Wikipedia will have existed when its birthday arrives Friday – but first let’s consider a...
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