by David Brooks | May 4, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As a general rule when there’s a state-by-state ranking of useful services, you don’t want to be alongside Mississippi or West Virginia. But they’re the company that New Hampshire keeps in a recent ranking of public (i.e., not in people’s...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News: In the early 19th century in North America, parasitic infections were quite common in urban areas due in part to population growth and urbanization. Prior research has found that poor sanitation, unsanitary privy (outhouse) conditions, and...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
From the Vermont/N.H. chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation: (For background, check my story from last July) On May 1, 2021, 24 volunteers and local school students worked with the Southeast Land Trust (SELT) and the VT/NH Chapter of the American Chestnut...
by David Brooks | May 3, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
In New Hampshire we ecowarriors like to tut-tut about those wasteful southerners with their air conditioning, but the hard fact is that heating a home comfortably up here usually takes more energy than cooling it comfortably down there. That makes sense from sheer...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2021 | Blog
Maine may be seeing a new strain of rabies in gray foxes, caused by cross-infection between them and raccoons. A story in the Bangor Daily News (here) says veterinarians think the strain might be behind a series of rabid fox attacks in the midcoast section of Maine,...
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