by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Until now, research showed Mount Washington’s summit had not yet tipped towards a significant warming trend. But a new study of the Mount Washington Observatory’s data set reveals summit annual temperatures are increasing at a statistically significant rate. You...
by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont, like many places, is looking at how to pay for roads as we get more electric vehicles, which don’t pay gasoline tax. About 20 states have an annual EV “registration fee” – New Hampshire is considering one – but that’s a...
by David Brooks | Dec 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 20, 2021, to Jan. 2, 2022. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Federated X2 Gateway Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,206,584,...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember that big splash we heard in October about the arrival of mandatory 10-digit dialing to New Hampshire? It’s not really mandatory yet. Sometimes you can still connect in-state calls with good old seven digits, like 867-5309, no 603 area code necessary. It’s...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
No newsletter next week, between Christmas and New Year’s, so here’s a year-end roundup of sun fun posts from 2021. No COVID, no climate emergency, no ticks or invasive species – and, of course, no politics. November: When it comes to area codes, I...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
(After this column appeared in the Monitor, a reader pointed out an unspoken assumption: Who says Santa exists only in 3 dimensions? “Free yourself of the constraints imposed by a XYZ-based mindset and posit that Santa exists in 5 dimensions!” he wrote.)...
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