by David Brooks | Apr 12, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
My brother is something of an electronics pack rat and I often get his hand-me-downs. I’ve learned not to be surprised when gently used laptops, routers, MP3 players and the like suddenly arrive in the mail, but his most recent gift was surprising. It was an induction...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A company called BluShift that wants to send small rockets into polar orbits from coastal Maine has switched plans to using a “liftboat” – a large, flat boat with long retractable legs that can be lowered to the ocean floor, stabilizing it. The...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s a little less than two years now until a solar eclipse will zip across Coos County on April 8, 2024. The day will be an official non-holiday holiday. I’ve been writing about this since 2019 (“Time to Panic – it’s only five years...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote a short story about repairs coming to the much-loved but much-overused Franconia Loop hiking trail – one of the greatest day hikes in the entire world. You can read it here, but the reason I bring this up is that it’s an excuse to revisit one of my...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 3 to April 10 . *** Antenum Assigned Patent for FM Scavenging for Wireless Charging Antenum, Merrimack, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent...
by David Brooks | Apr 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s a rare textbook that has sold over a million copies, has a Twitter account, has been a clue on Jeopardy!, and even made a cameo appearance in a popular Chinese soap opera. That distinction belongs to the best-selling Introduction to Algorithms,...