by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Three interconnected gears can’t move, but three interconnected gears look cool, which is why graphics designers love to use them as a symbol for engineering – much to the frustration of engineers. I see it all the time – most recently in the above...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
If you could go back in time, would you go back 2,000 years or 200? That’s a trick question: you can’t go back in time. Alas! But you can come close by participating in the state’s annual archaeological field schools, helping excavations at a Native American site in...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Really interesting story in the Portland Press-Herald about some hippy types who went off the grid decades ago, and are finding the lifestyle harder to maintain as they hit their 70s. (The whole piece is here) Forget harvesting wood, even loading the wood stove...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
By Targeted News Service Recent patents issued to people or companies in New Hampshire include: Allegro Microsystems, Worcester, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent (9,291,876) developed by two co-inventors for a “system and method for controlling a...
by David Brooks | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog
This is the best news story for today’s date: Nearly 60 years after the smoot first appeared on the Mass. Ave. bridge, the MIT-borne unit of measurement will be recalibrated to the exact measurements of its namesake, Oliver Smoot ’62. members of the MIT...
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