by David Brooks | May 3, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Next time you’re filling up your car and moaning about the cost, imagine if the price of gas went down at midnight and you could fill up at night without leaving the house. Replace “gas” with “electricity” and that’s smart charging. Better yet, imagine if you could...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Parochialism is fun in sports, not so fun when tackling global disasters. A UNH study of offshore wind found, alas, we don’t make that distinction. We conducted two surveys – one in Rhode Island and the other on the New Hampshire coast – to see how people felt...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Six weeks ago, the >italic<Concord Monitor>res< happily mothballed the weekly COVID Tracker after 20 months of pondering the ups and downs of the pandemic, with fingers crossed that it would never return. Alas, we have had to uncross our fingers, at least...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
“Tthe high recycling rates of post-consumer paper, cardboard, and metals prove thatrecycling can be an effective way to reclaim valuable natural material resources. The problemlies not with the concept or process of recycling but with the material itself – it is...
by David Brooks | May 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 24 through May 1. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection Centripetal...
by David Brooks | Apr 28, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Since at lease 2016 there was talk about releasing tons of GMO white-footed mice on Nantucket, a Lyme disease hotbed, to test whether we can break the Lyme transmission cycle. There’s still talk, reports the Boston Globe, although it’s getting closer....