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...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
The Boston Business Journal reports that Boston MedFlight helicopters have been cleared to use GPS to land in Boston, near Logan airport: “helicopter ambulance systems in New Hampshire and Maine have utilized GPS to land at hospitals, Boston MedFlight is the...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
The Bangor Daily News reports that the tallest chestnut tree in North America has been found in Maine, not far from the New Hampshire border. It may not be the biggest, because others are fatter, but it’s taller by a good 20 feet over the next competitor. The...
by David Brooks | Nov 27, 2015 | Blog
A site called Decluttr, a place for selling used CDs, has created one of those comparing-states maps using data from Google. Most such maps are pretty lame (“what’s the drunkest state?!”) but this one is clever: “Using data from Google Trends...
by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
These photos were sent from the recent launch of the weather balloon in New Hampshire as part of the educational/research project known as SMART (I wrote about it last week). When the balloons get to 90,000 to 100,000 feet up, the air is so thin that the pressure of...
by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
(This story ran in Wednesday’s Monitor, but I couldn’t post it yesterday because of GraniteGeek’s web hosting problems) If you hope to unwrap a new drone for Christmas, be ready to register with the government – an idea that isn’t necessarily...
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