by David Brooks | Jan 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Robert Holt’s reaction after his neighborhood lost power in the recent storm was different than mine. “This is, like, perfect! This is how it’s supposed to go!” he said, looking back at how his home performed. Holt was happy because his home is one of the few in New...
by David Brooks | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Shooting coyotes is, surprisingly, a poor way to reduce the population because of the way they react as a group. (I mentioned it in this story about attempts to regulate coyote hunting in the state; right now you can hunt coyotes any time you want.) But that...
by David Brooks | Dec 29, 2022 | Newsletter
New Hampshire’s population continues to edge up slightly due to people moving into the state, compensating for the fact that more state residents are dying than are being born. Between July 2021 and June 2022, the state’s population grew by 7,700 people, or half of...
by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Thanks to digital mapping, it’s possible to calculate how grid-like any city’s street layout can be. This story in The Economist explains it: Geoff Boeing of the University of Southern California created a measure of city “entropy”, looking at how...
by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Dec. 25. *** Pre-Assembled Coupling Assemblies With Pipe Fitting ASC ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS,...
by David Brooks | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(The Union-Leader has more details here, although you may hit the paywall) Associated Press: A New Hampshire man was convicted Thursday of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business and laundering over $10 million in proceeds of romance scams and other internet...