by David Brooks | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The fact that this column is named “Granite Geek’ might give you a clue about my certain bias when solving complicated problems, such as how best to keep indoor spaces safe during the pandemic. I want the solution to be geeky! Social distancing and wearing masks and...
by David Brooks | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you think about it the name “natural gas” is kind of weird. Why “natural”? Does that mean there is “unnatural gas”? The answer: Yes, although “manufactured gas” is the usual term. I have a story in today’s...
by David Brooks | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
By DAVID HIRSCH, Dartmouth News: A citizen science program that began over a decade ago has confirmed the use of dragonflies to measure mercury pollution, according to a study co-authored by Celia Chen, director of Dartmouth’s Toxic Metals Superfund Research...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: In a new study, University of New Hampshire researchers have concluded that when assessing forest imagery collected by unmanned aerial systems, an alternative method of delineating individual forest tree crowns within those images is more...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog
(This column ran Monday with data from the previous week. Different data and different analysis can produce different conclusions, as I noted in this item in the paper Tuesday.) It’s a journalistic truism that, human nature being what it is, bad news sells papers....
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