by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When you’re staying at home, you’re not driving. The number of trips by cars and trucks paying to go through tolls on New Hampshire turnpike system fell below 1 million last week, maybe for the first time ever since all the tolls were set up. Car trips are...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Obviously the United States needs lots and lots more testing for COVID-19 to determine who is and isn’t carrying it. Future years will look back with horror at the federal government’s failure to prepare during the first three months of this year for what...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Who says academic research is all ivory tower and no real-world consequences? Not UNH, as they note in this recent release. From UNH News: New Hampshire adopted a new, lower drinking water standard for arsenic last year after University of New Hampshire researchers...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(NOTE: I wrote this yesterday. Since then, New York schools have stopped using Zoom because of this concern and Zoom is going to change some settings as of Monday to make bombing harder.) Remember that time you went to a meeting of the local Planning Board, only to...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A data analyst named Steve Deane with Stratos Jet Charters in Orlando, Florida, has been making depictions of plane traffic taken from Flightradar24 to illustrate how much COVID-19 has clobbered commercial aviation. It depends mostly on data from ADS-B transmitters,...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Concord Monitor runs a list of patents that have been issued recently to companies or individuals in New Hampshire, broken down a week at a time. If you’re in a patent-hunting mood, check it out: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Keyword?keyword=patents....
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