David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Leaf Blower Season, the Annual Assault on Common Sense
Yesterday, the annoying backyard roar told me “It’s leaf blower season again.” The environmentally unsound, intrusive machines deprive manual laborers of earnings. We’d be better off if we brought out some rakes and did it the old way in the…
The Leaf Blower Menace: Why These Noisy Machines Should be Banned
Every autumn, the sound of leaf blowers fills the air. It sounds like every homeowner in America has one, and they are used with impunity to clean up leaves that have fallen from trees. But these noisy machines should be…
Is it time to ban leaf blowers now, end the noise and air pollution?
Ban leaf blowers now. That thought burned across my mind as the crew outside entered its third hour of noise and air pollution. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Introduction to an unjustifiable public nuisance… “The noise is…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor