by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2019 | Newsletter
Concord is one of those places that has pledged to switch to 100% renewable energy, and now it’s figuring out exactly how to do that in the three big energy areas: Electricity (which is straightforward, if not easy), transportation (which is relatively...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Raw milk is a touchy subject. Some people who think that pasteurization – heating it to a certain degree for a certain period of time to kill off the pathogens that just love to grow in milk – is sometimes unnecessary, ruins the flavor and has some effects...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s been a long legal fight in New Hampshire between banks and an inventor who says he has patents covering ATM machines. The bankers say he’s a patent troll; he got mad and sued and it made it to the state Supreme Court. Their ruling? “Patent...
by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The UNH law school in Concord has launched its first virtually-all-online degree (a small part of the 3 1/2 years will be on campus), which required a waiver from American Bar Association rules that frown on “distance learning.” It’s also an unusual...
by David Brooks | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Research from the University of New Hampshire finds that the increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted into the atmosphere by human activity and fossil fuels is altering the way forests grow and use water. Scientists found that trees in the...
by David Brooks | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The UNH law school in Concord – now renamed UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, which was sort of its name for three decades before UNH took it over in 2010 – on Wednesday started its first class of a new online degree in Intellectual Property law. I wrote...
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