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...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
Occasionally on my commute I pass a guy riding a bike along a 50 mph two-lane road while pulling a dog in a trailer. News gets slow in summertime and any story is a good story, so a couple weeks ago I pulled over to the side of the road at the top of a hill, wrote...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog
My Monitor column today talks about how the InterOperability Lab at UNH has launched a new consortium to deal with Software-Defined Networks, as “software eats the world” moves into the hardware keeping the internet internet-ish. You can read my prose...
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