by David Brooks | Aug 6, 2016 | Blog
AP reports (here) that Vermont is worried that stricter EPA limits on a chemical called TFM in drinking water will hurt the fight against the invasive sea lamprey. Fishing enthusiasts (are) worried that scaling back on the use of TFM could cause lamprey to boom and...
by David Brooks | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog
Yes, that was a drone over downtown Nashua yesterday, reports the Nashua Telegraph: Pembroke-based JBI Helicopter, which provides helicopter service for Eversource in New Hampshire to make regularly scheduled inspection flights, brought one of its unmanned aerial...
by David Brooks | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog
You can make a reasonable argument that the development of calculus in the 17th century – giving us the ability to quantify rates of change for all natural processes – marked the beginning of the modern world. Almost nothing in the industrialized economy...
by David Brooks | Aug 3, 2016 | Blog
And from East Sussex, south of London, comes the latest “mobile phones are ruining life” event – a landlord is trying to block phone signals by creating a Faraday cage around the bar. He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
Eversource says the FAA has given it permission to use a drone to inspect a substation and systems in downtown Nashua, around Bridge Street. This seems incredibly sensible – quiet and no less safe than doing it with a helicopter, certainly. I suspect that...