by David Brooks | Sep 2, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I did not realize that there’s a ballot initiative in Massachusetts to add ranked-choice voting. If Question 2 is approved, the system would go into effect in 2022, covering most state and federal offices but exempting presidential and local elections. Dan...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The average temperature at Concord airport this summer was higher that it has been since Ulysses S. Grant was president, with the temperature rising above 90 degrees on 24 days. Portland, Maine, meanwhile, saw its hottest summer on record, by a long shot. The National...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Concord Monitor depends on advertising revenue. So why is it showing me an advertisement for a product that will block advertisements, thus reducing our income? Because our non-local ads are the product of algorithms via Google or some such service. Nobody said...
by David Brooks | Sep 1, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
When first described to me, it sounded like a simple task: Figure out how to protect a butterfly that lives only on the Presidential Range. Simple? Ha! Nothing’s simple in wildlife biology, especially when you’re dealing with a tiny creature – the caterpillars are so...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The Science Director at the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock writes an outdoors column for the Valley News. The latest looks at biofluorescence, the interesting but not well-understood process by which parts of various species (NH amphibians among...
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