by David Brooks | Jul 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
With some pushing to remove Franklin Pierce’s name from two colleges because of his support of slavery, you have to wonder about the future of a much bigger object: Mount Pierce. Right now there doesn’t seem to be any agitation to rename that 4,300-foot peak in the...
by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Sara Schaier, UNH: If you want to understand how a species will survive or fail, one of the things you need to know is whether it’s mating at top capacity. A new study from UNH discovered a better way to count sperm in lobster that could help researchers of any...
by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 5 to July 12. *** Trustees of Dartmouth College Assigned Patent for Multilayer Conductors with Integrated Capacitors The Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has...
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Electricity demand in New England on a typical hot summer weekday can get as high as 22,000 MW, says ISO New England, the folks who run the six-state grid. The forecast for today (July 9) as I write this is 22,500 MW. The all-time high was in August 2006: 28,130 MW....
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The number of new COVID-19 cases and new hospitalizations in New Hampshire continues to decline, but the disease is still taking an outsized toll on certain groups: people in nursing homes, Blacks and Latinos, and men. You can find the data for this and more on the...
by David Brooks | Jul 7, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
That’s the question I tackle in my Monitor column this week (read it here). Spoiler alert: Variety is the spice of long life. The photo taken in lat June shows a giant ash I stumbled across in 2018 and previously wrote about. To my pleasant surprise, it is still...
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