by David Brooks | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers with Alene Candles, a firm based in Milford, N.H., that is a major contract candle manufacturer, were recently assigned a patent for inventing a new way to make “marbled” candles with swirls of color. Here’s how the company described it:...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Ice storms are everybody’s least favorite type of winter weather. Unless you’re a certain kind of scientist, that is; then they’re fascinating in a scary sort of way. “When you first start doing the icing, with the sprayer slowly going back and forth, coating dowels...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I know what I’m doing 1,869 days from now. Do you? I’ll be watching the full solar eclipse in Littleton or thereabouts. If you want to be there, too, don’t wait too long to do your planning. “By the time you’re down to a year, or a few months, it’s too late –...
by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
One of these summers on a really, really hot day, Eversource might present its customers with an odd-sounding proposal: Let us make your house warmer. The state’s largest electric utility is seeking permission in New Hampshire and its other New England markets to...
by David Brooks | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
After a two-month hiatus, caused when the bar where we’ve been holding sessions decided to make different use of its extra room, Science Cafe NH is returning to Concord next month. Yippee! We’ll be at Makris Lobster and Steak House on Route 106, a...
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