by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(NOTE: I wrote this yesterday. Since then, New York schools have stopped using Zoom because of this concern and Zoom is going to change some settings as of Monday to make bombing harder.) Remember that time you went to a meeting of the local Planning Board, only to...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A data analyst named Steve Deane with Stratos Jet Charters in Orlando, Florida, has been making depictions of plane traffic taken from Flightradar24 to illustrate how much COVID-19 has clobbered commercial aviation. It depends mostly on data from ADS-B transmitters,...
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...
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