by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
From a Conservation Law Foundation news release: Eelgrass – underwater seagrasses that are the foundation of the Great Bay estuary’s ecosystem – say its coverage across the estuary fall by 80 percent in a single year, from more than 1,000 acres in 2024 to just 211...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Oct. 12. Plasma Arc Torch HYPERTHERM, INC., Hanover, New Hampshire has been...
by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH researchers are examining the long-term ecological effects of the chestnut blight, which in the course of a couple decades a century ago wiped out one of the dominant tree species on the entire Eastern Seaboard, to see if it can help them predict what will happen...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter, Science-Technology
This post ran in 2016 when Wikipedia turned 15. Now that Wikipedia has turned 20, I figured I would run it again. This column concerns a number – 15, the number of years that Wikipedia will have existed when its birthday arrives Friday – but first let’s consider a...
by David Brooks | Mar 29, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
As New Hampshire contemplates its energy future, maybe we should include a bit of energy past that has never quite succeeded. That’s the idea behind an intriguing proposal from Dean Kamen’s research firm, DEKA. It wants to power a state-owned building with a Stirling...
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