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,...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A century ago, when the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count was just getting started, the idea of asking random people to provide field data about wildlife was ridiculous. These days it’s almost overwhelming. Organizations from most state wildlife agencies to the...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Embarrassingly for somebody who’s an avid heat-pump fan, I heat my house with an oil-fired hot-air furnace. I also have a pellet stove in the living room, which I use as supplemental heat in winter evenings, when we tend to huddle in the living room anyway. This...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve long been fascinated by utility poles: They’re so ubiquitous we don’t notice them and yet they’re amazing: 40-foot-tall straight trees are grown by the millions (there are somewhere around 500,000 utility poles in New Hampshire alone, and...