by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2016 | Blog
The world may not have the flying cars people expected when The Jetsons was our vision of the future, but we’re awfully close to a technology that in many ways seems more difficult to achieve: the self-driving car. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, in fact,...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Three interconnected gears can’t move, but three interconnected gears look cool, which is why graphics designers love to use them as a symbol for engineering – much to the frustration of engineers. I see it all the time – most recently in the above...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
If you could go back in time, would you go back 2,000 years or 200? That’s a trick question: you can’t go back in time. Alas! But you can come close by participating in the state’s annual archaeological field schools, helping excavations at a Native American site in...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
Really interesting story in the Portland Press-Herald about some hippy types who went off the grid decades ago, and are finding the lifestyle harder to maintain as they hit their 70s. (The whole piece is here) Forget harvesting wood, even loading the wood stove...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog
By Targeted News Service Recent patents issued to people or companies in New Hampshire include: Allegro Microsystems, Worcester, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent (9,291,876) developed by two co-inventors for a “system and method for controlling a...
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