by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter, Science-Technology
This post ran in 2016 when Wikipedia turned 15. Now that Wikipedia has turned 20, I figured I would run it again. This column concerns a number – 15, the number of years that Wikipedia will have existed when its birthday arrives Friday – but first let’s consider a...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Jan. 15, 2021 is the 20th anniversary of wikipeiia, so I’m resurrecting this column from 2018. As you probably know, 4.78 percent of Concord’s total surface area is made up of water. Wait – you didn’t know that? Then you haven’t read Wikipedia in the past 15...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 10 to Jan. 17. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Congestion, Overload Reduction Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,893,436,...
by David Brooks | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
A replacement highway bridge in Hampden, a town next to Bangor, Maine, has girders made partly of composite materials and there’s real hope this could cut down on maintenance problems, especially rust caused by road salt. The Bangor Daily News has a story...
by David Brooks | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: See note at bottom. Invasive species are non-native plants, bugs and beasts that for various reasons, usually lack of predators, spread so quickly after being introduced that they overwhelm native species. They’re a huge problem all over the world...
by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The IBEW union in Maine says that Schiller Station in Portsmouth, with two 50 MW coal-fired and one 50 MW wood-fired power plants, has effectively shut down permanently, although the owners haven’t announced anything. They said this last July – I’m...
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