by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH News Service: Area residents soon will enjoy a sour fall beer made of kiwiberries that was brewed at the University of New Hampshire thanks to a new partnership between researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station and the university’s new brewing...
by David Brooks | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Poking through an old footlocker, I found this 1995 book, the second edition of The Whole Internet User’s Guide. Such nostalgia! 1995 was the year the online world really entered public attention. I had started writing a second column for the Nashua Telegraph...
by David Brooks | Oct 25, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: At Dartmouth a rare corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum) named Morphy is getting ready to bloom at the Life Sciences Greenhouse on campus. Once in bloom, the enormous plant will have a pungent odor that has been compared to...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire doesn’t allow early voting – you can’t cast a ballot before election day unless you’re going to be out of town or unable to make it to the polls – and yet we consistently have one of the highest election turnout percentages...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Years ago I helped a friend of a friend with a backyard aquaponics system – in which plants are grown in water rather than soil and fish live in the water. I was entranced. It seemed almost magical, with the poop from the fish feeding the plants to create both...
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