by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
WMUR reports (here) that a medical flight from a motorcycle accident in New Ipswich stayed on the ground for 10 minutes because a drone was flying nearby. Officials said they believe the drone operator saw the helicopter land and then put the drone up to investigate. ...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember Terrafugia? If you’re a long-time reader you do, because I wrote frequently about that Massachusetts effort to build a flying car (“roadable aircraft” was their preferred term), which basically looked like a funky Honda Civic with giant...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
For a century, up until it crumbled 20 years ago, the Old Man of the Mountain could be viewed because it was held together by chains, spikes and geologists scrambling over the face of Cannon Mountain. Now it can be viewed again, but this time because of drones, old...
by David Brooks | Feb 28, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Like all good tourists our family once went to “Moose Alley” – the section of Route 3 from Pittsburg to the Canadian border where you’re most likely to spot the enormous gangly beasts wandering along or near the road. We did see several moose,...
by David Brooks | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Interesting story in the Monitor about pushback against police surveillance of the public. The whole article is here. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Atlas of Surveillance uses public information and an army of student journalists to document the tools that local...
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