by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the best-known electric vehicle repair people in the Northeast is Rich Benoit in Salem, Mass., a former IT guy who rode his YouTube videos about electric-vehicle repair to a national reputation. That reputation made him butt heads with famously secretive Tesla...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth New Service: A “molecular volume knob” that regulates electrical signals in the brain helps with learning and memory, according to a Dartmouth study. The molecular system controls the width of electrical signals that flow across synapses between...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re going to test a weather station to make sure it’ll work on Mount Everest, where do you go? How about Mount Washington. From an article (read it here) in AMC’s Outdoors magazine: They spent several hours off the side of the auto road, just...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
You can’t generate millions of watts of electricity would creating some problems – nothing’s perfect. Solar panels’ most obvious problem is area – they have to spread out to absorb enough photons. It’s easiest and cheapest to do...
by David Brooks | Nov 10, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Back when I was in middle school a lot of people were talking about a disastrous infection that had come out of an exotic place and was threatening millions of people, just like COVID-19. It had a much better name, however – The Andromeda Strain – and it was much...
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