It's Fibonacci Number Day (5/8/13)
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, May 8, 2013
It's Fibonacci Number Day (as Americans abbreviate dates): 5/8/13 ... there won't be another such sequence until Aug. 13, 2021. Here's a nice site about it, with lots about the … Full story »
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A great picture of the world's first wind farm, which was in NH
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, May 7, 2013
New Hampshire had the world's first wind farm, an experimental operation by Umass-Amherst, as I noted in a post yesterday, but I've never been able to find good photos of … Full story »
Streaming-TV service Aereo, coming to NH, counter-sues CBS
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, May 6, 2013
A few weeks before streaming-TV service Aereo arrives in New Hampshire (my earlier story here), it has upped th elegal battle with broadcasters by counter-suing CBS, one of several companies … Full story »
How about an electric hybrid vertical takeoff flying car?
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, May 6, 2013
Terrafugia, the Woburn, Mass. firm that is developing a flying car - sorry, "roadable aircraft" - using a push propeller has a new dream: an electric hybrid vertical-takeoff car! Artist's … Full story »
Want comments from readers? Write about wind farms
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, May 6, 2013
Ever since The Telegraph switched to Facebook comments for its articles, the number of reader responses on most stories has plummeted. I'm not certain why: perhaps people don't want their … Full story »
Mourning New Hampshire's greatest pareidolia, 10 years after the Old Man fell
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, May 3, 2013
The Old Man of the Mountain collapsed 10 years ago today, as many news folk (including me and others at The Telegraph) note. That chisel-jawed profile was a classic pareidolia … Full story »
I did better on a general religion-knowledge quiz than a general science-knowledge quiz; hmmm ....
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, May 2, 2013
Pew Research Center put up easy-ish, 15-question online quizzes recently - one about general science knowledge, one about general religion knowledge. I missed one of the science questions, as I … Full story »
A true author for geeks: Nevil Shute (not just for 'On the Beach')
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, May 1, 2013
One of my favorite authors is Nevil Shute, the British/Australian novelist best known for "On the Beach," the stiff-upper-lip tale of Earth dying after a nuclear war. Although Shute didn't … Full story »
Should kids still be taught to write in cursive? (Hint: No.)
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, May 1, 2013
My son, who's about to enter a Ph.D. program in mathematics (i.e., he's not an idiot), has atrocious handwriting. It's not that his writing is hard to read, although it … Full story »
I got to write 'acoustic Doppler current profiler' in a story today!
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 30, 2013
"Something bad isn't happening locally" isn't a very exciting news story, but sometimes fun stuff comes out of it. I have an article today about sequestraton and automatic stream gauges … Full story »
20 years ago, the World Wide Web (haven't typed that in a while) was born
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 30, 2013
It's geek nostalgia time: 20 years ago today, Gizmodo reminds us: CERN published a statement that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available to use, by anybody, on … Full story »
The most famous NH mathematician: Is it actually Dartmouth's John Kemeny?
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 29, 2013
In my memorial piece about Ken Appel of four-color theory fame, noted in earlier posts, I call him the most famous mathematician ever associated with New Hampshire. I was a … Full story »
The four-color theorem and the birth of computer-aided math (with NH connection)
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 29, 2013
Ken Appel, former head of the math department at UNH and known worldwide for using computers in 1976 to co-prove the four-color theorem, gets a posthumous examination in my Telegraph … Full story »
Man who proved four-color map problem, ex-UNH math head, dies
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, April 26, 2013
Kenneth Appel, famous for being part of the team that created the first great computer-aided proof, of the "four-color" theorem which says that any map can be colored with four … Full story »
Is your life encoded in the digits of pi? Probably (but good luck finding it)
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, April 26, 2013
Nothing freaks out mathematical cranks - yes, they exist; and have been the subject of some wonderful books - like the infinite. They'll make up every type of pretend math … Full story »
If Aereo (streaming TV) succeeds, will Pandora (streaming music) benefit?
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, April 25, 2013
Aereo, the company which snags over-the-air TV and streams it to people over the Internet without paying retransmission fees to broadcasters, is coming to New Hampshire (as I reported two … Full story »
Did you know there are three kinds of twilight? (Not the vampire variety: the solar variety)
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The Telegraph is redoing its weather page, because lost our Accuweather account. As part of it, we were seeking twilight times ... and I found this interesting tidbit from NOAA: … Full story »
Take a (pretty easy) science quiz from Pew Research Center
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 24, 2013
If you don't get at least 10 or 11 of the 13 questions right on the online science-knowledge quiz from Pew Research Center then ... well, then I don't know … Full story »
More emerald ash borers found in Concord - none outside, so far
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Not surprisingly, more emerald ash borers have been found in trees in Concord, where the first outbreak of this destructive invasive insect was spotted last month. None have been found … Full story »
Controversial TV-streaming service Aereo is coming to NH in May
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The most controversial broadcast system in television – Aereo, which allows over-the-air streaming of channels in direct challege to Comcast – is coming to Greater Nashua. New York City-based Aereo, … Full story »
3-D printing firm Shapeways raises $30 million
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Shapeways, probably the highest-profile of online 3-D printing firms, has raised $30 million in a series C round of venture financing, reports the NY Times. It had previuosly raised $17 … Full story »
Voice-activated texting is just as bad for driving as doing it with your thumbs
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 23, 2013
It’s every bit as dangerous to speak into a mobile device that translates words into a text message as it is to type one. That's the conclusion from a study … Full story »
Can robots be abused? How about Lego robots?
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 22, 2013
Can you abuse a robot? Is it bad if you do? These interesting questions were pondered in a 2008 experiment that parallels the infamous Milgram Experiment in which volunteers were … Full story »
On Earth Day, let's celebrate places that the environmental movement saved
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 22, 2013
It's Earth Day. so instead of the usual hand-wringing and self-righteous wet-blanket-ism that is environmentalism, let's do a little celebration, courtesy of Slate. They've got a nice piece about seven … Full story »
There are limits to do-it-yourself: 'Build your own coffin' workshop flops
Posted by David Brooks | Sunday, April 21, 2013
A natural-burial advocate in Waterville, Maine, decided to teach people how to build their own coffins. Alas, as the Morning Sentinel reports, nobody showed up: "Americans are really good at … Full story »
That funny/quirky coffee made from excreted coffee beans is putting pressure on the animal that excretes them
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, April 19, 2013
Back in 1995, an Ig Nobel award was given to Luak Coffee, made from coffee beans that has passed through the intestinal tract of the luak, also spelled luwak - … Full story »
Can you shoot somebody else's cat on your property (and other Science Cafe questions)
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, April 18, 2013
Great Science Cafe last night, as always. The discussion about the role of cats and wildlife stayed polite - it got a little edgy when the question of declawing cats … Full story »
Science Cafe tonight: "Cats or catastrophes? Are our pets a problem for wildlife?"
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 17, 2013
This month's Science Cafe NH is tonight (Wed., April 17), discussing cats, both domestic and feral, and their effect on wildlife. Are they a real problem here? If so, what … Full story »
Scientific American looks at how an IED bomb is made
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Scientific American has an article about the mechanics of making bombs like the ones that detonated during the Boston Marathon. They did not use C4 or other high-grade explosives. You … Full story »
Ice-out in Lake Winnipesaukee back to normal this year
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 16, 2013
After last year's record early ice-out at Lake Winnipesaukee, and the then-record-shatteringly-early date in 2010, things are normal this year: The semi-official event making the end of winter is likely … Full story »
Ash trees can be saved from emerald ash borer - but only one tree at a time
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 15, 2013
The ash trees in America's forests are probably doomed by the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that last week showed up in New Hampshire for the first time, but … Full story »
Will Vermonters put their money where their bobolink-loving mouths are?
Posted by David Brooks | Sunday, April 14, 2013
The Bobolink Project in Vermont is trying to see if residents of valleys popular in spring with the bobolink - a songbird that nests there after arduous trans-continental migrations - … Full story »
What's the correlation between bear sightings and bears?
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, April 11, 2013
“I don’t think there’s a lot of correlation between sightings and population. One or two bears in a highly urbanized area can generate hundreds of complaints a day; they really … Full story »
Speed for five minutes and get 300 speeding tickets? With software to target law-breakers, that's possible
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 10, 2013
If there are red-light cameras which issue tickets, why not speeding cameras which issue tickets? Lack of robotic judgement could mean you get a ticket for every second that you're … Full story »
Every NH county has been hit by federally declared weather-related disasters since 2007
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 9, 2013
From EnvironmentNH: Four months after Hurricane Sandy left 210,000 people without power and closed 32 state roads in New Hampshire, a new Environment New Hampshire Research & Policy Center report … Full story »
The pipe-corroding power of human urine and other lessons from atop Mount Washington
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 9, 2013
You would think that waterless urinals would be a good thing atop Mount Washington, where septic systems are hard to maintain. Think again, as I learned from a Berlin Daily … Full story »
All hail, hail cannons! and other fun hail facts
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 9, 2013
If the headline "Five Interesting Facts about Hail" doesn't make you fall asleep and/or laugh derisively, you might want to check out this FAQ from CoCoRaHS, the regional precipitation-watching organization … Full story »
Very bad news: Emerald ash borer has been found in New Hampshire
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 8, 2013
It was inevitable that the far-flying destructure emerald ash borer would show up in New Hampshire, since it was definitely in eastern New York state, but it's still sad to … Full story »
Single-chair ski chairlifts are almost gone in US (hi, Mad River Glen!) but not around the world
Posted by David Brooks | Sunday, April 7, 2013
I accomplished a minor life goal this winter and rode in the single-chair chairlift at Mad River Glen in Vermont. (That's me, above.) It's the only one in the country, … Full story »
The fragmentation of telecom: Half of Nashua area isn't in the Nashua phone book because they're Comcast subscribers
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, April 5, 2013
The AT&T telephone monopoly dates back to 1913 (more history here, if you're a telecom wonk). Before that, the nation was served by a patchwork of somewhat connected local telephone … Full story »
Glaciers that took 1,600 years to form melted in 25
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, April 5, 2013
I haven't posted a despressing bit of climate change news in a while, so ponder this lede from a NY Times story and sigh deeply: Glacial ice in the Peruvian … Full story »
Is bitcoin currency or commodity? Answer: yes. Is it a good idea? Answer: uncertain.
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, April 4, 2013
Bitcoin, the virtual, anonymous money-like stuff that has been embraced by Free Staters, Linux geeks, early adopter speculators and the occasional normal business, is a fascinating topic - why would … Full story »
Bad behavior drives out good: MIT can't leave its network open any more
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, April 4, 2013
Citing a DDOS attack and the hoax about a gunman which shut down the campus last month, MIT has ended its practice of leaving the campus network open to all … Full story »
'Sea potato' found in New England - hopefully it won't become a problem
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 3, 2013
By UNH News Service: There’s a new seaweed in town, a brown, bulbous balloon befitting the nickname “sea potato.” Its New England debut was spotted by two University of New … Full story »
The cicadas are returning after 17 years (but not here, alas)
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, April 3, 2013
UPDATE: Cicadas make good eating - especially those protein-rich, egg-laden females! So says this site. Decades ago I was at an outdoor party in Virginia when the ground started moving; … Full story »
Lynn, Lynn, city of sin - and a honking big undersea Internet cable
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The news about alleged sabotage of a big undersea Internet cable off Egypt (Wired article here) led me to wonder whether New Hampshire's magnificent coastline (all 18 miles of it) … Full story »
Biocontrol against hemlock wooly adelgid shows hope
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 1, 2013
Laricobius osakensis, a beetle species from Osaka, Japan, that preys almost exclusively on the hemlock woolly adelgid, is being tested in Virginia, where researchers have nicknamed it "Larry". A Virginia … Full story »
What's the difference between propane and natural gas, anyway?
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, April 1, 2013
What's the difference between propane and natural gas? Why is the first delivered by trucks and the second by pipeline? Those are the questions that my GraniteGeek column tackles today … Full story »
US wastes half our energy, overall
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 29, 2013
The above clever chart gives a sense of how various energy sources are used in the U.S. It shows how tiny "alternative energy" is. But it also shows how wasteful … Full story »
Today's hot tech news: A123 is now B456
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 29, 2013
Lithium battery maker A123 of Waltham, Mass., has changed its named to B456. Honest. Well, sort of. Like most cutting-edge battery companies, A123 has been struggling to turn good lab … Full story »
You and I are too cool to care about what our peers think, right? Wrong!
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, March 28, 2013
There's a great piece in the NY Times today summarizing research about the effect on our behavior of social norms - i.e., our peers do X, so we're more likely … Full story »
End global fossil-fuel subsidies, says International Monetary Fund ($1.40/gallon of gas in US)
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, March 27, 2013
From today's Washington Post: Governments around the world subsidize gasoline, electricity and other major forms of energy to the tune of $1.9 trillion a year according to a new International … Full story »
Making cellulosic biofuel in the lab is easy-ish; industrial scale, not so much
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Good story in the Union-Leader today about the decision by Lebanon's Mascoma not to go for an IPO and how it reflects problems in the whole cellulosic biofuel industry, which … Full story »
Lebanon's science cafe is Thursday, on invasive insect pests in the forests
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The latest science cafe in New Hampshire - cleverly called a "science pub", which is really a more accurate title - takes place Thursday in Lebanon, near Dartmouth College. The … Full story »
Mystery dead animal in Maine was rare white coyote
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 26, 2013
A wildlife expert says he finally has an answer on the mystery white animal found dead in Kennebunk (Maine) last week: it’s a rare white Eastern coyote. After giving the … Full story »
Do maple trees near cemeteries have sap that tastes like corpses?
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 25, 2013
At least one person is upset (some people get upset at anything) about a couple of maple trees being tapped in a cemetery in the town of Epping. The Union-Leader … Full story »
Why doesn't Congress stay in their home districts and telecommute?
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 25, 2013
You know how Yahoo's CEO caused a kerfuffle by saying that people couldn't work at home any more (she says an analysis of data showed that such people were less … Full story »
New Jersey, Illinois say they have eradicated Asian longhorned beetles
Posted by David Brooks | Saturday, March 23, 2013
New Jersey says it has not been able to find any Asian longhorned beetles in the state since 2006, despite severe outbreaks in previous years, and that the invasive pest … Full story »
Maine targets illegal maple-tree taps because they harm lumber trees
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 22, 2013
Maine Forest Ranger Thomas Liba, who was in town investigating two sap thefts, said most landowners are not concerned about the stolen sap, but rather the damage done to their … Full story »
Why do mosquitoes give us diseases when they bite us, but bedbugs don't?
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, March 21, 2013
Excellent discussion at last night's Science Cafe NH, as always - although the crowd wasn't quite as big to talk about mosquitoes as it was to talk about beer (hey, … Full story »
Fake fur on that garment? No, it's fake fake fur.
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Apparently there is a growing controversy in the high-fashion industry: Sometimes, "fake fur" items on clothing is actually real fur, faked to look fake. As the NY Times says: In … Full story »
U.S. is now a 'first to file' patent country, like the rest of the world
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 19, 2013
One of my regrets is that I don't have a patent - that would be cool. The closest I can come is writing about changes in U.S. patent law, which … Full story »
UNH program teaches science professionals how to talk to the general public
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 19, 2013
UNH will host a National Science Foundation event called "Science: Becoming the Messenger." It's open to principal investigators, researchers, engineers, students and postdocs, as well aspublic information officials for universities, … Full story »
High-speed evolution: Road kill causes birds' wings to become shorter in just three decades
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Cliff swallows that swoop over roads to eat insects attracted to the heat of the pavement risk being hit by cars. The risk is so great that in just three … Full story »
Lowell, Mass., tries for a hackerspace of its own
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 19, 2013
MakeIt Labs, the Nashua hackerspace, seems to be thriving - and now the city's over-the-border neighbor Lowell, Mass. (where MakeIt Labs started in a smaller incarnation) wants to play, too. … Full story »
Vermont wind tunnel aims to be the biggest in the world
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A $2 million facility in Williston, Vermont (where?) may be the biggest wind tunnel in the world - but it's not to design giant wind farms, as I figured; it's … Full story »
Science Cafe on Wednesday: Mosquitoes vs. Humans!
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 18, 2013
This week's Science Cafe (6 p.m. at Killarney''s Pubc this Wednesday, March 20) was originally going to just examine the past, present and future of West Nile virus in New … Full story »
Telegraph readers now know why we don't celebrate "e day" as well as "pi day"
Posted by David Brooks | Saturday, March 16, 2013
I got to write a short sidebar to a feature in today's Telegraph about schools celebrating pi day ... which ended thus: Pi’s only real rival in terms of mathematical … Full story »
Got food dye and a toilet? Try for a prize in an online challenge
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 15, 2013
When the kids were little, the kitchen was full of food dye, so useful for birthday parties and other fun events. The kids are long off to college and beyond … Full story »
$2 billion from federal oil, gas leases might pay for alt-energy research
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 15, 2013
With no chance of Congress passing a carbon tax - the most straightforward, transparent, and market-driven way to shift our energy usage patterns - the administration is going to try … Full story »
I didn't get up at 1:59 a.m. to celebrate Pi Day to six digits - there are limits (math joke!)
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, March 14, 2013
I'm not quite sure why pi has become mathematics' most successful pop-culture meme - "e" is easier to spell. But Congress is unlikely to ever pass an E Day proclamation, … Full story »
Having fun on our biggest rocks: Museum looks at connection between geology, recreation in White Mountains
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The state's newest museum, Plymouth State University’s Museum of the White Mountains, in collaboration with Mount Washington Observatory, will present an exhibit titled To the Extremes: The Geology of Adventure … Full story »
'Raspberry Pi Projects for the Evil Genius' talk next week
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 11, 2013
The New Hampshire chapter of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is holding some interesting discussions, which are open to the public; next week is a talk about things … Full story »
Boiling down maple syrup is a (yawn) long, long process; reverse osmosis can help
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 11, 2013
I helped some friends boil down syrup yesterday - started at 8 a.m. (sap was already collected) and we finished at midnight ... and we didn't even finish! We made … Full story »
Timber harvest in big NH state park designed to fight Red Pine Scale
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 8, 2013
They're having a "sanitation harvest" at Bear Brook State Park in central New Hampshire, cutting many trees on about 118 acres in an attempt to contain the spread of Red … Full story »
Comon, folks - Cocorahs needs more weather watchers
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 8, 2013
CoCoRaHS, the national volunteer precipitation-watching program, is signing up new stations during a March-long push - and so far, neither New Hampshire nor Massachusetts nor Vermont has added a single … Full story »
An app that lets you skip corporate voice mail moves to Massachusetts
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, March 7, 2013
Boston Business Journal reports that an Israeli startup called Zappix (all the good tech-biz names have been taken, it seems), "whose mobile app lets users bypass customer service voice menus … Full story »
New Hampshire has become Science Cafe central: Three of them are in full swing
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, March 6, 2013
I wonder if New Hampshire has the nation's highest per-capita number of active Science Cafes? Three of them are holding monthly sessions this spring: I Just got an update on … Full story »
Porstmouth Science Cafe tomorrow: The science of Sustainable Communities
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Portsouth Science Cafe (sponsored by the UNH EPSCOR program) is tomorrow, March 6: "Sustainable Communities, Public Health, and Transportation: Connecting the Dots". It's at Portsmouth Brewery at 6 p.m. Doors … Full story »
Soldering and sewing: A Nashua class about adding electronics into your clothing
Posted by David Brooks | Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Electronics doesn't have to live in plastic boxes; you can add it to your shirt or shoes. That's the idea behind the "wearable technology" subset of the maker movement, a.k.a. … Full story »
OK, no excuses: It's time to become a precipitation-watcher for CoCoRaHS
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 4, 2013
The national precipitation-watching group CoCoRaHS is doing it annual membership drive, and as a volunteer for a couple of years I thought I'd toss in my two cents. The group … Full story »
Innovative journalism: If you can't take photograph the rock stars, recreate them in Legos
Posted by David Brooks | Monday, March 4, 2013
Irish music site Golden Plec wasn’t allowed to send a photographer to a concert by the band the Killers, so photographer Debbie Hickey re-created the show in Lego. The journalism … Full story »
UMaine in race to use lasers to measure offshore wind
Posted by David Brooks | Sunday, March 3, 2013
Industrial-sized wind farms cost a friggin' fortune, so investors want to maximize the power they produce - which means knowing a lot about the winds that blow over different parts … Full story »
NH kills 'parental rights' amendment - which was, I suspect, at least partly an anti-vax move
Posted by David Brooks | Sunday, March 3, 2013
Who could be against a state constitutional amendment that says, in toto, "PROVIDING THAT: parents have the natural right to control the health, education, and welfare of their children"? Happily, … Full story »
NH firm developing large-scale energy storage with air
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 1, 2013
New Hampshire Public Radio has a nice piece about SustainX, a Seabrook NH firm that's trying to commercialize large-scale energy storage with compressed air. You can read it here. You … Full story »
Almost despite ourselves, we've been becoming more efficient for decades
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 1, 2013
America's "energy intensity" - the amount of GDP produced per unit of energy used - has been falling steadily since the 1970 oil embargo, and will continue to fall, predicts … Full story »
Can you measure your home heating efficiency from the vibrations of your furnace flame?
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, March 1, 2013
I have a story coming in the Sunday Telegraph about a Merrimack engineering design firm (really a father-and-son engineering duo) who say they've developed a meter which can measure your … Full story »
UNH part of team that discovers third radiation belt around Earth
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, February 28, 2013
UNH News Service: Although scientists involved in NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission were confident they would eventually be able to rewrite the textbook on Earth’s twin radiation belts, getting material … Full story »
Bitcoin reaches a new high value ... must have been my coverage
Posted by David Brooks | Thursday, February 28, 2013
Bitcoin has reached an all-time high value of $33.22 - must have been my coverage during the recent Liberty Forum. Hmmm ... I wonder if Science Cafe NH could accept … Full story »
Update: Bill would regulate, largely outlaw, drones
Posted by David Brooks | Wednesday, February 27, 2013
UPDATE III: The committee sent it to the House for an eventual floor vote. Expect more discussion. UPDATE II: Here's the story in today's Telegraph. UPDATE: Oops, I'm wrong. It … Full story »
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