by David Brooks | Apr 28, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Since at lease 2016 there was talk about releasing tons of GMO white-footed mice on Nantucket, a Lyme disease hotbed, to test whether we can break the Lyme transmission cycle. There’s still talk, reports the Boston Globe, although it’s getting closer....
by David Brooks | Apr 28, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Vineyard Wind, the offshore-wind farm that hopes to start producing power next year, has announced a new multi-year collaboration with the University of New Hampshire to deploy a Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) device to record ambient sound and marine mammal...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The above headline is taken from the Dartmouth press release because I can’t improve on any headline starting with “sex secrets”. The web story (here it is) has a link to a video/audio recording showing this cool camera at work. NY Times Science has...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Tackling big problems, as I’m sure you’re been told, requires thinking outside the box. Even if the box is vertical, chilled, and full of tomorrow’s dinner. “Ten years ago, this was heresy – putting a door between the product and the customer!” said George Parmenter,...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
This is an opinion piece from Sam Evans Brown, executive director of Clean Energy New Hampshire and Joe Short is vice president of the Northern Forest Center. Within the growing clean energy community, advocates agree that transitioning away from fossil fuels must be...