by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Recently I took myself to task for repeating a story that was too good to check – that the original area codes were assigned by population to minimize time spent on the network dialing. Here’s the story, if you missed it. But maybe I wasn’t so wrong,...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
When I wrote about a “revolutionary” energy-making machine being developed in Massachusetts that seems to conveniently sidestep certain laws of physics (here’s the story from last week) one reader mused about 1970s memories of a New Hampshire man who...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: This story ran in Monday’s Monitor. A reader posted an comment below it online about the legislature’s decision a decade-ish ago to reject federal funding to study this idea, saying that the GOP legislators who made the move wanted to widen I-93...
by David Brooks | Nov 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Nov. 7 to Nov. 14. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Virtual Guard Bands Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,172,396, initially filed...
by David Brooks | Nov 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Durham campus of UNH loves the ginkgo tree outside James Hall because it drops its leaves all at once in dramatic fashion. The school’s department of natural resources has been keeping track of when this happens since the 1970’s, and guess-the-day...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It is becoming increasingly clear that electric vehicles are the future of vehicles. But who’s going to fix them when they break down? The world’s greatest grease monkey (as a mechanical dunderhead I use that term with respect and admiration) can’t do much if your...
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