by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I got my general aviation pilot’s license close to 40 years ago and haven’t flown since – couldn’t afford it then, don’t need it now – but recently I learned something that I should have known all along: I was flying with leaded...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The Appalachian Mountain Club has an excellent piece online (right here) debating the role of cell phones when hiking in the White Mountains and wilderness areas of the Northeast. It’s well worth a full read. The story includes an interview with Lt. Jim Kneeland...
by David Brooks | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers in Northeastern University in Boston and Cambridge in the UK have figuring out how to atomically manipulate iron and nickle to create tetrataenite, a material known only from meteorite samples that isn’t known to exist on Earth. That’s a...
by David Brooks | Nov 9, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Two of New Hampshire’s landfills, in Rochester and Bethlehem, are by far the biggest emitters of greenhouse gas in the state according to a just-released global survey. The Bethlehem landfill, North Country Environmental Service, emitted 212.29 kilotons of...
by David Brooks | Nov 6, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Steve Davidson, the New Hampshire man who owned the trademark of the name “Amazing Stories” and in 2012 brought back the classic science fiction magazine, first digitally and then in print (erratically), has stepped down: In straightforward terms, I’m...
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