by David Brooks | Jun 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Just like you and me, Dean Rubine admits that he sometimes wastes time online. “When I’m not doing my real job, I like to watch math on YouTube,” he said. OK, maybe he’s not just like you and me. And as we’ll see, it’s not always a waste of time. Rubine is a computer...
by David Brooks | Jun 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
From NHTI News: Two students at NHTI-Concord’s Community College have solved a problem that has impacted the school’s Biology II class for years. Noah Ford and Sophia Lemay refined a complex method to successfully extract DNA from a bacteriophage, allowing future...
by David Brooks | Jun 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through June 8. *** Disinfection Devices and Methods Using the Same SOCLEAN, INC.,...
by David Brooks | Jun 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
the fascinating Vermont company BETA Technologies, developing electric passenger aircraft of both convential and vertical take-off-and-landing types, made a splasy arrival at JFK Airport in New York. Press release here, full of the usual self-congratulatory quotes...
by David Brooks | Jun 5, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Turtles aren’t the only species endangered by cars when spring arrives , as noted in this earlier post. Frogs and salamanders face automotive peril, as well. For years, the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock has run Salamander Crossing Bridges, in...
by David Brooks | Jun 4, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Next time you have to sit through some guy’s boring litany about how tough he is, here’s a good way to end the blather: “Dude, you think you’re resilient, but you’re no turtle.” “We have some turtles that come in just totally obliterated-looking. People tell us, ‘No...