by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Mainebiz has an article about a small startup in Biddeford, Maine, that’s developing an autonomous robot for weeding crops. This seems a non-trivial problem (said a guy who occasionally uproots the things he’s trying to grow). They’re approaching it...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Northern New England isn’t great zoo territory, for better or worse, but at least two area zoos have taken to giving some of their animals COVID-19 vaccines, reports WCVB-TV: The highest risk species at Zoo New England(which owns Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
We tree-hugging types face a conundrum when it comes to our love of local food and farms because it’s easy for agriculture to be an environmental bad guy. For example, I’m a big supporter of my local chicken farm – their automatic egg-sorting machine is a Rube...
by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Public Radio reports that a judge has “again rejected an attempt to use a competing harms defense for five protesters who tried to stop a train bringing coal to the Merrimack Station power plant in 2019.” Judge Andrew Schulman … had...
by David Brooks | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 12 to Sept. 19. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Elastic Local, Global Scheduling for Cellular Infrastructure Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it. New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The company says it plans...