by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember when finding evidence of planets circling other stars was big, big news? Like all things scientific, it quickly became pretty routine, at least for the astrophysics set. Dartmouth reports that a physics and astronomy major who just graduated found two of them...
by David Brooks | Jun 16, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
From Masslive: Eversource has hundreds of miles of rights of way under its Massachusetts transmission lines, where periodic clearing creates a scrub-and-brush terrain bordering grown forest. It’s an ideal home for eastern box turtles in a New England landscape...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire native Alan Shepard hit two golfs during his stint on the moon for Apollo 14. New video images show how far they went. Not all that far, despite the vacuum and low gravity. Details are here from the BBC.
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
It turns out that the right-to-repair law passed in Massachusetts and uphold by courts “does essentially mean there would be no proper security controls preventing someone from remotely connecting into a car” and may not go into effect after all, although...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember Terrafugia? If you’re a long-time reader you do, because I wrote frequently about that Massachusetts effort to build a flying car (“roadable aircraft” was their preferred term), which basically looked like a funky Honda Civic with giant...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The district geothermal pilot in Framingham, Mass., that I wrote about last year has broken ground and it’s getting a lot of attention. “A New Kind of Clean Energy Utility is Born in Massachusetts” is how Heatmap, an online media company covering...
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