by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Some Dartmouth researchers are using “natural language processing—artificial intelligence techniques focused on human linguistics—to extract meaningful information from health-related social media interactions” and are trying it out on “posts from a...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Manchester is too close to Boston. That, in a nutshell, is why Manchester-Boston Regional Airport has struggled for the past decade and a half. The latest blow: Just three days after a new airline said it would be starting service at Manchester-Boston regional...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Unitil has begun work on a 4.9 MW solar array on 36 vacant acres in Kingston that will be the largest in the state and, importantly, the first such array owned by a regulated utility. (There are some rooftop arrays on utility buildings.) It’s near an existing...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The nation’s first major offshore wind farm, the under-construction Vineyard Wind off Massachusetts, has shown up in an important, if obscure, location. The project is one of more than 900 energy sources of various types (including batteries and demand reduction) who...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From UMASS Amherst news service: A collaborative team of scientists led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently found that there is no physiological evidence supporting a leading theory why many fish species are shrinking as waters grow warmer due to...
by David Brooks | Feb 21, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
This question came up recently in a newsroom discussion over our recycling setup (a cardboard box with “aluminum cans” written on the side – I take it to my town recycling when full). My understanding was that crushed cans can confuse the machinery...