by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Concord Monitor runs a list of patents that have been issued recently to companies or individuals in New Hampshire, broken down a week at a time. If you’re in a patent-hunting mood, check it out: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Keyword?keyword=patents....
by David Brooks | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
On Twitter today I posted this question: Why is Vermont’s death toll per confirmed case so much higher than in New Hampshire? Vt. is 13 out of 293 = 4.4%, NH is 3 out of 367 = 0.8% Fortunately, I was smart enough to add this sentence: “However, the numbers...
by David Brooks | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From D-H News: A behind-the-scenes group at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) research operations leads and investigators has opened a pair of Phase 3 therapeutic studies of a potential treatment for COVID-19 in a remarkable six days. Such tests can typically take 60...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
More than 40 years after the U.S. stopped making the chemicals known as PCBs, the human-made lubricants are still causing problems in New Hampshire including new restrictions on eating fish caught in Squam Lake. The state Department of Environmental Services has...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Look at that chart from Flighttrader24.com showing global commercial airline flights this year! I don’t think there’s been a single event that has such a quick world-wide economic effect since the start of World War II – and even that was more...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The COVID-19 shutdown continues to be visible on New Hampshire highways – or, rather, invisible, since the big difference is the cars that aren’t there. That’s cars, not trucks: So far, the number of truck trips on the state’s turnpike system hasn’t declined very...