by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
This time of year, thousands of natural-food enthusiasts are prowling through New Hampshire’s forests, rifles in hand, hoping to obtain the most ecologically-sound meal possible. What meal is that? Wild venison: the muscle and fat from a deer you’ve recently killed...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in 2013, Yitang “Tom” Zhang, a calculus lecturer at UNH, submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics about a problem known as the twin-prime conjecture. Within a week, his breakthrough had drawn worldwide attention from research mathematicians, Harvard had...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: NH GRANIT, a mapping agency for the state based at the University of New Hampshire, is receiving close to a million dollars from the N.H. Department of Business and Economic Affairs (BEA) to inventory and map statewide broadband coverage that is...
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...