by David Brooks | Oct 15, 2015 | Education
The new Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire can analyze everything from a one-ton (NOTE: The weight of this hypothetical moose has been changed; see reader’s comment below) moose to microscopic pathogens, with animals from alpacas...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
Interactive maps showing the effect of sea-level rise on coastal areas have been around a while – they’re pretty easy to create if you’ve got the right tools, thanks to detailed topographic data – so the release of a new one by Climate Central...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
My weekly chat with Peter Biello of NH Public Radio covered, as usual, my Monitor column – which as you’ll recall from a posting yesterday concerned a New Hampshire inventor who claims he has greatly improved on standard screw-thread design, and is trying...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2015 | Economy-Business
New Hampshire’s energy picture got two surprising pieces of news Tuesday: The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on Boston’s South Shore plans to shut down in the next few years, and the state’s largest natural-gas plant changed ownership for $500 million. Both reflect the...
by David Brooks | Oct 14, 2015 | Blog
Portland, Maine, has a Tool Library, which is great idea for urban areas where apartments don’t have much room. There’s a piece about it in today’s Portland Press-Herald (right here) – it sounds like a makerspace where you do the making...
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