by David Brooks | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A new species of bacteria has been discovered living on solar panels atop the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, which is interesting unless it starts to eat the panels or do something like that. I don’t want my solar panels eaten. The article about the...
by David Brooks | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A story in today’s Monitor about the rise in telemedicine (read it here) contains this sentence: In the first month and a half of the pandemic, there was a 11,718% increase in the number of Medicare beneficiaries using telehealth. I always stumble over...
by David Brooks | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
To be honest, back in March, I thought COVID-19 would be calming down by now. I knew the disease wouldn’t be gone – that will take effective vaccines – but I figured warm weather and months of experience would reduce its impact on our lives. Instead, the coronavirus...
by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A Seacoast Online story about tensions about crowding on the state’s ocean beaches starts with the line “New Hampshire’s Atlantic coastline, the smallest in New England, is just 13 miles long, or 18.5 miles if you include inlets,” which made me sit...
by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from July 26 to Aug. 2. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Cyber Warning Receiver BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
On Mondays in the Concord Monitor I run a weekly update of four COVID-related measures in New Hampshire – average number of new cases, whether that number is going down, number of tests per capita and percentage of tests that are positive. If you’re a...
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