by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
Science Cafe New Hampshire had its first monthly discussion of the fall season last night in Nashua. the topic was fishing and fisheries, with marine fisheries experts from UNH Sea Grant and a Fish & Wildlife expert who’s based at the federal fish hatchery...
by David Brooks | Sep 17, 2015 | Blog
I didn’t watch the presidential debate last night because I was at a more interesting event – Science Cafe NH started its fall season, more about which anon – but I understand that the two physicians who are running for the office waffled on a topic...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
Green Mountain Power, the main utility in Vermont, plans to take an entire state park off the grid and power it with solar panels and Tesla batteries. They aren’t doing it because it cool and Vermont-y, although it is. They’re doing it because the power...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
True video game geeks know Ralph Baer, who led development of what became Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game, while working at Sanders Associates (now BAE Systems) in Nashua. I wrote several stories about him while working at the Nashua Telegraph, which is...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2015 | Blog
NHPR has an interesting piece today (read or listen to it here) about efforts by the New England Wildflower Society to collect seeds from local plants, in case they become endangered because, say, a huge storm destroys the coastal area where they thrive. the key, says...
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