by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A small craft distillery in the tiny town of Windsor, N.H., has switched to making hand sanitizer. “Legally, we kind of weren’t supposed to be doing this, but no one cares right now,” said Erin Bell, Silo’s chief distiller, on Thursday as she was getting ready...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote about (but didn’t visit – such is reporting in the COVID era, sigh) the telemedicine hub at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the Monitor. Telemedicine was going to be the topic of this week’s Science Cafe, so I turned it into a story...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m going through books on my shelf, looking for things to discard. Reading Rudy Rucker’s “Mind Tools” I came across this tidbit, driving home how tiny viruses are: “The Earth’s diameter is about 10^7 meters, and a virus is about...
by David Brooks | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: Since I posted this two days ago, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy is asking people to stay off the AT, even for day hikes. Hiking the Appalachian Trail might seen like a perfect way to get through the COVID shutdown of life – I’m laid off, so...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
At least one New Hampshire member of the Makerspace community – Adam Shrey, one of the leaders of MakeIt Labs in Nashua, the state’s first makerspace – is involved in an effort to create open-source medical equipment. I talked to Ja’dan Johnson in...
by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Tomorrow (Friday, march 20) the New Hampshire Tech Alliance will hold a webinar on “options available to New Hampshire businesses struggling with many sudden changes. This webinar is free and open to all. It will also be recorded and immediate available to...