by David Brooks | May 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I figured Manchester-Boston Regional Airport was being hit hard by the COVID-19 shutdown, but holy cow! Check out the numbers in the Union-Leader story (here): “The state’s largest airport had 95% fewer passengers last month than a year ago because of government...
by David Brooks | May 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Many people have a favorite type of insect. Butterflies and dragonflies are perennial favorites, but you can find folks with a soft spot in their heart for almost anything, from walking sticks to dung beetles. Me? I like bumblebees. There’s something about their...
by David Brooks | May 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1999 at the iconic New Hampshire gaming arcade Funspot, a guy named Billy Mitchell achieved the first-ever perfect score on an arcade version of Pac-Man – 3,333,270 points over about six hours. Since then, his claim and other of his arcade records have been...
by David Brooks | May 4, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service Patents assigned in New Hampshire from April 26 to May 3 Position Imaging Assigned Patent for Virtual Reality Mobile Devices Position Imaging, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,631,131, initially filed Feb. 1, 2019)...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy column has a good look at those UFO tapes released by the Pentagon. (Spoiler: all are easily explained by non-alien reality.) You can read it here. And this seems a good time to re-run part of a piece I wrote clear back in 2012....
by David Brooks | May 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
We all know that when dealing with an erratic data set, choosing end and start points to trend lines makes all the difference. The state’s daily count in confirmed COVID-19 cases is a perfect example – as my amateurish illustration (Microsoft Paint...