by David Brooks | Aug 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The opossum, of course. What other choice was there? U-L story here. When I was a kid, possums were a southern thing. I don’t think they were found in New Hampshire back then, or at least were very rare. Just another species moving north as we change the...
by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Canary Media has a story about Lexington, Mass., doing what more towns should do – banning new nat-gas hookups in buildings – and the result on housing construction. Surprisingly, perhaps, it had no effect. Whether this is translatable everywhere is...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 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 Aug. 3. ***Reinforced Wood Fiber Core and Method of Making ThereofSOUHEGAN...
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 | Aug 1, 2025 | Newsletter
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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...