by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
The long attempts to bring Atlantic salmon back to the big rivers of southern New England, the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers, has pretty much failed. They just couldn’t overcome all those dams preventing the fish from moving between sea and spawning ground,...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog
Nothing in particular prodded this story, except that I found a copy of it online beyond a paywall and thought I’d snag it before I lost the paywall access. This is from a story I wrote in 2013: The world’s first wind farm stood on the north side of Crotched...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2016 | Blog
A high school buddy of mine who served in the Navy can do a very funny routine about trying to locate the ship’s position with a sextant, ending with his captain dryly noting that he had decided placed their aircraft carrier was sitting in the midst of an Asian...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The changing climate is going to affect a lot of things around us in the coming years, but perhaps nothing more than the most overlooked (quite literally) item in local government’s quiver of tools, the lowly road culvert. “Recent trends show that we are getting...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | Blog
Albert French, who has a USCF rating of 1921 making him one of the 20 best players in teh state, leads a chess club at the Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility, a state prison in Berlin. NPR had a story about the program a couple of weeks ago: Here it is. I...
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