by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
In one month – October 24 – dialing the 603 area code will become necessary to make local calls to some new Hampshire numbers. By next June, it will be required for all numbers. Phone companies are starting to alert people about it, noting that things like...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Mainebiz has an article about a small startup in Biddeford, Maine, that’s developing an autonomous robot for weeding crops. This seems a non-trivial problem (said a guy who occasionally uproots the things he’s trying to grow). They’re approaching it...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Northern New England isn’t great zoo territory, for better or worse, but at least two area zoos have taken to giving some of their animals COVID-19 vaccines, reports WCVB-TV: The highest risk species at Zoo New England(which owns Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
We tree-hugging types face a conundrum when it comes to our love of local food and farms because it’s easy for agriculture to be an environmental bad guy. For example, I’m a big supporter of my local chicken farm – their automatic egg-sorting machine is a Rube...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Public Radio reports that a judge has “again rejected an attempt to use a competing harms defense for five protesters who tried to stop a train bringing coal to the Merrimack Station power plant in 2019.” Judge Andrew Schulman … had...
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