by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Dams seem to be pretty straightforward objects – they’re big things that block water – but a re-licensing effort for three dams on the Connecticut River shows that it can get complicated when electricity is added to the mix. “This would be unique for us,” said John...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One out of every 3,436 people in Vermont had died of COVID-19 since data began being kept – the best per-capita figure of any state. The figure is 1 out of 2,100 in Maine, the fourth-best (Hawaii and Alaska do better) and 1 out of 1,236 in New Hampshire, the...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The enormous New Hampshire Legislature has begun meeting again and, as always, a slew of proposed bills are on the table. Hearings have begun and committees are chewing through them. Many proposals will get nowhere, or emerge in completely different form so...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Hats off to whoever at the Union-Leader spotted this little bit of analysis about the distance traveled by the golf balls hit on the moon by New Hampshire’s own Alan Shepard. The story is here. The conclusion: the first ball went 24 yards and the second 40...
by David Brooks | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: Feb. 9 at 6 p.m., scientists will talk about this in a virtual Science Pub. Register here. At Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, scientists forced to abandon long research habits due to COVID-19 are “recording the sounds of the forest, which they hope will...
by David Brooks | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 31 to Feb. 7. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Contact Element for Plasma Arc Torch Cartridge Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,912,183,...