by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
The Union-Leader has a good story today (read it here) about Manchester Water Works harvesting red pine trees in watershed land it owns because red pine scale is on the way and will probably kill the trees. Manchester Water Works plans to remove stands of red pine...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
Northern Woodlands is an excellent quarterly magazine from the Center for Northern Woodlands Education in Vermont. It’s a terrific mix of touchy-feely outdoorsy stuff, science reporting on environmental, outdoors, wildlife and other issues, and information...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
New Hampshire Liberty Forum, an annual gathering of Free Staters and like-minded folks, says the world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, is going to be a keynote speaker at the February meeting in Manchester – which is very cool, regardless of...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog
Dean Kamen and a bunch of folks associated with his Manchester R&D firm Deka have received a patent that seems to allow you to operate a Segway-like vehicle by leaning the handlebars back and forth, as shown in one patent illustration above, or perhaps by twisting...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog
I learned from Green Car Reports, via Reuters, that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration missed a November deadline to produce rules requiring electric and hybrid cars to emit noises to warn pedestrians. An earlier proposal called for vehicles “to...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2015 | Blog
A report from the Globe’s STAT health-and-science section: “Hundreds of scientists are convening in Washington today for an international summit on genome editing, fueled by the development of the technology called CRISPR. The technology, which...
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