by David Brooks | Sep 12, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a confession to make: I really like the look of a mowed lawn. But I’m trying to kick the habit. I know the classic suburban lawn has the ecological value of a parking lot, that the model of a weekly-mowed monoculture contributes to the alarming decline of...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2023 | 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 Sept. 10. *** Apparatus for Monitoring, Regulating, or Controlling Fluid...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m long thought it’s crazy that New Hampshire allows a big, private hunting preserve to have loose wild boars, which are an incredibly destructive menace. It’s like allowing somebody to have a zebra mussel farm in Lake Winnipesaukee with assurances...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
From NH Agricultural Station: Thanks in part to a newly awarded grant from the U.S. Geological Survey, researchers at UNH’s NH Veterinary Diagnostic Lab (NHVDL) and the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies (HCGS) — along with partners at UNH’s Research Computing Center,...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Going through a footlocker of old newspaper clips, I found this Science Briefs package that I wrote in the April 9, 1989, edition of the Nashua Telegraph, when I was an editor for the Sunday paper and its Sci/Tech section. This 34-year-old piece might be the first...
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