by David Brooks | Jun 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Tuesday at a regularly scheduled press conference, the director of Health and Human Services, Lori Shibinette, said New Hampshire would not using apps on mobile phones as part of its efforts to track the spread of COVID-19. “We have looked at different apps … We just...
by David Brooks | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It exasperates me that we’re so slow to set up some form of time-of-use rates for electricity, since that’s such a straightforward way to get people to shift when we demand power, making it easier to balance a clean grid. The power of market incentives,...
by David Brooks | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I am not one of those people who gets all hot and bothered about the need to adopt the metric system. I’m perfectly happy with inches and degrees Fahrenheit, which fit better into daily life than than centimeters (too small) and degrees Celsius (too big). But COVID-19...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Concord Monitor is keeping track of four measurements that are often cited as good indicators of how the COVID-19 pandemic is progressing, looking at data provided by New Hampshire. This is our weekly update on how we’re doing on these four goals, looking at data...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth is the only Northern New England institution on a list of 100 colleges and universities that got the most U.S. “utility patents” – those that involve a new or improved product, process, or machine. It is No. 91, edged out by the University...
by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned to companies in New Hampshire from May 31 to June 7. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Carrier Aggregation Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned...