by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There are a ton of really horrible invasive weeds out there, but Japanese knotweed might be the horriblest. In the UK it has gotten so bad that you have trouble getting a mortgage if the plant is found within seven meters of your property line, partly because its...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire covers about 6 million acres and people were living and traveling all over it for at least 12,000 years before Europeans arrived. But those pre-Contact people didn’t leave much evidence for us to see. The Granite State doesn’t have a stonehenge or huge...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Podcasts can be a terrific source of long-form journalism, but if you don’t have a long commute and don’t want to sit in the living room and listen to the radio the way people did in the 1930’s before TV, podcasts can be too long. That might be a...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Some researchers from Dartmouth are among the many scientists participating in a research project that involves a ship getting frozen into the Arctic ice for a year. That’s not an original idea – the great polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen did it 120 years...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is one of a number of states working on developing a regional cap-and-trade program – although “cap-and-invest” is the new term – for transportation. It would work sort of like RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that has...
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