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...
by David Brooks | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog
This is the best news story for today’s date: Nearly 60 years after the smoot first appeared on the Mass. Ave. bridge, the MIT-borne unit of measurement will be recalibrated to the exact measurements of its namesake, Oliver Smoot ’62. members of the MIT...
by David Brooks | Apr 1, 2016 | Blog
Vibrations caused by rock music have been found to increase a drug’s therapeutic window by creating a Teflon-like coating over the micro particles used in drug delivery. Researchers from the University of South Australia used AC/DC’s Thunderstruck to cause porous...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2016 | Blog
Reuters has a fun story about autonomous cars failing because they can’t handle crappy roads. Shoddy infrastructure has become a roadblock to the development of self-driving cars, vexing engineers and adding time and cost. Poor markings and uneven signage on the...
by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2016 | Blog
If you missed the March 16 Science Cafe NH in Nashua, here’s a write up by a volunteer named Benjamin DiZoglio, released by Dan Marcek, who moderates the discussion: On Wednesday, March 16th, NH’s Science Café brought citizens and experts to Killarney’s...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog
My column Tuesday about the possibility of having a Stirling engine power part of a state-owned building has generated more online discussion that anything I’ve ever written, I believe – more than three dozen comments from two dozen people at the moment,...
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