by David Brooks | Nov 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: The US Patent Service has changed the way it reports patents and as a result, we can no longer include direct links to each patent. You can find them here, using the patent number. Sorry for the inconvenience.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Voters in three small New Hampshire towns will be putting their ballots into a new type of counting machine Tuesday – one that runs on open-source software rather than company-controlled software – in a pilot project to see whether digital transparency can increase...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
In October I wrote about an interest experiment to see if reflecting heat upwards via mirrors could be a climate mitigation strategy. (The story is here.) Test patterns are being set near Plymouth State University and at NHTI, Concord’s community college, to see...
by David Brooks | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
CNN reports: “A new study conducted in the UK found that 60% of products labeled as compostable do not fully break down in home compost.” And unlike conventional plastics, these alternatives are largely unregulated, despite their advertised...
by David Brooks | Nov 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Body Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to hear during an interview: “That’s why, all of a sudden, people are talking about culverts.” This might be a bit of an exaggeration – OK, it’s a wild exaggeration – but the statement from Rachel Rouillard, director of...
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