by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember that C-130 fuselage that raised so many eyebrows when it was trucked through downtown Concord last month? I wrote several stories speculating but not really knowing why it was here. At last the story can be told! (The U.S. military does many things well but...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Electric Co-operative, which this year included broadband internet among the services it aims to provide, has rolled out the service in four small western N.H. towns: Lempster, Clarksville, Colebrook and Stewartstown. Speeds are “up to 1...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
You know how the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal says (roughly) that we can’t accurately know the velocity and the location of a sub-atomic particle at the same time because measuring one alters the other? Measurement of snow depth is like that, too: You...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 13 to Dec. 20. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Heterogeneous Mesh Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,869,201, initially...
by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my most popular snow-related piece, which first ran in 2016. Today’s very fine snowstorm over the whole Northeast means it’s time for a rerun! I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across...
by David Brooks | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
How many people have died in New Hampshire because of COVID-19? That seems a straightforward question but it’s actually pretty complicated. One possible answer is: 440 more than we have counted. As of late November the answer was about 500, according to the state’s...