by David Brooks | May 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service Patents assigned in New Hampshire from April 26 to May 3 Position Imaging Assigned Patent for Virtual Reality Mobile Devices Position Imaging, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,631,131, initially filed Feb. 1, 2019)...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy column has a good look at those UFO tapes released by the Pentagon. (Spoiler: all are easily explained by non-alien reality.) You can read it here. And this seems a good time to re-run part of a piece I wrote clear back in 2012....
by David Brooks | May 1, 2020 | Blog
Portsmouth Regional Hospital announced today that it is participating in a national study to determine if plasma from convalescent, or recovered, COVID-19 patients may benefit individuals currently hospitalized with severe or life-threatening cases of the virus. As...
by David Brooks | May 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
We all know that when dealing with an erratic data set, choosing end and start points to trend lines makes all the difference. The state’s daily count in confirmed COVID-19 cases is a perfect example – as my amateurish illustration (Microsoft Paint...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
56 years ago on May 1 at about 4 a.m. the computer language BASIC was born at Dartmouth when “Professor John Kemeny and a student programmer simultaneously typed RUN on neighboring terminals. When they both got back correct answers to their simple programs,...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
You’re probably tired of hearing about the invasion of disease-carrying viruses, so today’s column will cover something entirely different: The invasion of disease-carrying arthropods. Yes, folks, once again it’s time to talk about ticks. Specifically, let’s talk...
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