by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I thought the PSU was Plymouth State University, but it’s Penn State U., alas. Still, here is a great want ad: Rattlesnake Assistant. The main responsibilities of the position will be to assist in the capture and processing of timber rattlesnakes, the radio...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As Vice News recent reported (here), activists are grabbing information from a website called The Daily Stormer, favored by modern Nazi wannabes, and have developed a map showing where they live (roughly) in the country. It was created by a systems analyst using the...
by David Brooks | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A digital tool that uses patients’ medical histories to help predict whether they are susceptible to opioid overdoses has been approved for use in New Hampshire, joining long-established surveys that try to predict whether patients will become addicted to the...
by David Brooks | Feb 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
A few weeks ago, this column snorted in derision at the idea that blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, was actually useful in the real world. Perhaps I snorted too soon, as what I thought of as one of the sillier proposals – using blockchain to register...
by David Brooks | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Services: Researchers have long known that many primates make decisions about the number of children they have based on the availability of resources such as food. Now new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University...
by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Recent patents issued to New Hampshire individuals and companies, as compiled by Targeted News Service for the Monitor: Collision Communications Assigned Patent for Calibrating Phase Hardware-Induced Distortion in Communications System Collision Communications,...
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