by David Brooks | Aug 30, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It sounds deep and zen-like to say it’s the journey rather than the arrival that matters but let’s be honest: It’s more fun to end up somewhere interesting. Like at a really big tree. Trees are awesome creatures even if you don’t hug them – but for me, the larger they...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
As regular readers know, I am very, very, VERY skeptical that any mountain lions exist in New Hampshire despite the constant parade of “I know what I saw!” I await no actual evidence – game camera shots, prey killed in ways that cougars do it, DNA...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The question of where hydrogen fits into the clean-energy future is complicated and I don’t really understand what parts are good and what are bad. It’s all so nebulous and theoretical right now that it’s easy to make compelling-sounding arguments...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Personally, I am done with hosting monthly Science Cafe events in person. A decade of that was enough! I may host the occasional event, like the one we held at the Market Days festival on Main Street in Concord this summer, but that’s it. SCNH folks based in...
by David Brooks | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve just about made it through a third pandemic summer and the question on everybody’s mind – at least, those who aren’t pretending that COVID has gone away – is whether we’re going to have a third surge this fall and winter. In 2020, New Hampshire went from having...