by David Brooks | Apr 11, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The weekly list of New Hampshire patents gathered by Targeted News Service is facing problems. This appears, I’m told, to be related to gutting the Patent Office along with all the other valuable government agencies decimated by the push to make government small...
by David Brooks | Apr 11, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
More people have died in New Hampshire from the flu this season than in any other season on record, according to the state. There have been 71 deaths attributed to influenza this season, one of them a child, according to the weekly report from the Department of Health...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
ADDENDUM: This article’s data is from the state economic analysis; Ken Johnson, UNH’s demographics guru, says federal Census Bureau estimates indicate we’re still slightly (50.1%) female – that’s a lower percentage than any other New...
by David Brooks | Apr 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Helping to save the planet is all well and good, but if it’s going to inconvenience us, I’d like some immediate benefit. So how about this: My trash doesn’t stink. That is what got me into composting. At my house, all the peels, fat, coffee grounds and other organic...
by David Brooks | Apr 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve learned to be very suspicious of claims that loudly proclaim themselves to be “pragmatic” or “realistic”. More often than not, those are code words for “we don’t want anything to change so we’ll block all reform,...
by David Brooks | Apr 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH in Nashua is discussing drug development at its Tuesday, April 15 meeting: The journey from lab bench to the pharmacy shelf for new drugs is typically long (>10 years) and costly (hundreds of millions of $ or more). This discussion highlight some of...