by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Compound interest in banks is fun. Compound disasters in our surroundings, not so much. Consider wildfires, as the town of Henniker is currently doing. We haven’t thought much about wildfires in New Hampshire for 125 years, since the White Mountains stopped being...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
ChatGPT and other AI language models can drive people crazy (as has been shown, alarmingly) so maybe it can help keep them sane. That’s roughly the idea behind “a new artificial intelligence institute backed by the National Science Foundation, building on...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire, like many places, has a lot of large companies that few know about because they don’t sell directly to consumers. SubCom of Newington is one of those. It recently celebrated a milestone this month when it became the first company to deploy 1...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 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 July 27. Controlled-Impedance Compliant Cable TerminationARDENT CONCEPTS,...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
In my long journalism career I have never had a chance to combine geometry, historical preservation, vandalism, hiking, map-making, state governance and giant poles atop nail kegs into a single article. Until today. The story’s news hook, as we journalists say,...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport was the only airport in New England to see passenger traffic decline last year, despite the arrival of new airlines and routes. While the decline was small — less than 1 percent — the numbers are a disappointment to boosters of what...