by David Brooks | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service Trustees of Dartmouth College Assigned Patent for Quanta Image Sensor with Polarization-Sensitive Jots Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,652,497, initially filed April 23, 2018) by two...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Truck traffic has returned to New Hampshire’s turnpike system but car traffic is still only half of its pre-COVID level, reflecting the fact that far fewer people are commuting to work. A total of 1.23 million trips by cars and trucks were made through the state’s...
by David Brooks | May 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Doesn’t it seem like it’s been windier than normal over the past couple of months? It sure does to me and anybody else I’ve talked to about it. That query was put to the National Weather Service folks in Gray, maine, who cover Maine and most of New...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
My column a few weeks ago dealt with Jim Malley, a UNH professor who’s been an expert in disinfection for decades and is leading research into methods of disinfecting medical equipment such as masks for working with COVID-19. UNH News has a feature story on the...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Seven months ago I wrote a column about the paradoxical arithmetic of mass testing for a rare disease, showing that even very accurate tests are wrong more often than we think. It was a fun intellectual exercise thrown together as a last-minute replacement for a...
by David Brooks | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
After nine years of success hosting science-y discussions in bars and restaurants in Concord and Nashua, Science Cafe New Hampshire was squelched by COVID-19 just like everybody else. We hope to get back to reality in the fall, but next week the Nashua crew is trying...