by David Brooks | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog
In what I believe is a first in New Hampshire and a rarity overall, Amherst, a well-off town just west of Nashua, has opened a public makerspace in its Middle School. It’s being run under the auspices of the town recreation department, which is cool, and...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
The Globe has a story about a trio of Cambridge, Mass.firms moving fast to develop and commercialize drugs and biotech products using CRISPR, the gene-editing tool (including one company called CRISPR, which gets the bulk of the coverage because it is parterning with...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
I’ve been meaning to do this story in New Hampshire; the Portland Press-Herald did it for Maine. “Especially when you get away from the coastline, the dry conditions have knocked the tick population down,” Lubelczyk said. “The humidity along the coast keeps the...
by David Brooks | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
The Block Island wind project in Rhode Island is small by offshore wind standards – 30 megawatts, or about twice the peak output of the Amoskeag hydropower dam in Manchester but only about 3 percent of the peak output of Seabrook Station – but it will be...
by David Brooks | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
Virtual Beach is an EPA-developed software package that correlates various environmental factors to make predictions about E. coli outbreaks in seawater. New Hampshire is using it and testing automated buoys on two lakes to see if we can better predict outbreaks in...
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