by David Brooks | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve got a hunter coming to my property this season to hopefully thin the eat-everything-in-sight herd. She does it for the meat, but perhaps that’s not a good idea – PFAS, those incredibly useful chemicals that were put in everything before we...
by David Brooks | Oct 11, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The biggest solar-eclipse booster in New Hampshire – perhaps the biggest on the Eastern Seaboard – has a confession to make: “I may have started a little early.” Rik Yeames has been eagerly anticipating April 8, 2024, when a total solar eclipse will cross New...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader reports. (story here, behind paywall; why not subscribe to the state’s biggest newspaper?) FedEx is ending the research and development of “Roxo” — a same-day delivery robot that was being developed with Manchester’s DEKA Research &...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
MaineBiz has the story (here): The first commercial office building in Maine that will primarily use cross-laminated timber will be funded in part by a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The 150,000-square-foot office building, at 100 Rock Row,...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH is back in meatspace mode in Nashua, meeting monthly at Margarita’s Restaurant, which is located in a converted industrial building right on the Nashua River – very cool spot. The next session is SETI, Science and the Search for Alien Life,...