by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2017 | Newsletter
There’s something about patents that gets some people all excited, especially those of us who haven’t been issued one. So I thought it would be fun to poke around patent lists compiled for the Monitor by Targeted News Service to see which towns around...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
A squirrel caused a short-circuit in a transformer and blew out power to most of Exeter on Jan. 4, reports the Union-Leader. This is no surprise to GraniteGeek readers, who may remember this story from December 2015, following a power outage in Concord caused by a...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
For years I’ve wanted to write a story about telephone poles, that ubiquitous presence that is almost entirely overlooked unless we hit them with a car on black ice. I finally did – and the Monitor ran it on Christmas Day. Several people read it, I’m...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
Three years ago a soft-spoken calculus lecturer at UNH named Yitang “Tom” Zhang suddenly became world famous, at least within the world of research mathematics, for releasing a major breakthrough in the twin-prime conjecture (which guesses that there are...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
If you need some noise to drown out the sound of the snowblower, you could do worse than to load your iPod with Wednesday’s recording of The Exchange, NHPR’s talk show, and hear podcaster/radio star Sam Evans-Brown and I talked with host Laura Knoy about...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
The population of New Hampshire grew very little last year, according to the latest estimates from the Census Bureau, although we’re doing much better than Vermont and Maine. State-by-state estimates released recently said New Hampshire had 1,334,795 people as of July...
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