by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note: At this event I will have a petition to sign, supporting my push to create a state historical marker honoring the birth of BASIC. That makes two reasons to show up!) Every cat owner knows that felines don’t obey the rules of physics. Every chef knows that dry...
by David Brooks | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Journalists both love and hate stories that come around every year, like back-to-school advances and Black Friday stories. We hate them because they’re repetitive, but we love them because they’re no-brainers. Almost as soon as I came to New Hampshire I...
by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(Addendum: Turns out, you can buy some noonkatone for yourself – $51 a gram. “Nootkatone, crystalline is used as an effective repellent in mosquitos, bed bugs, lone star ticks and head lice. It is also used as a food additive and flavoring material in...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
New technology always brings new concerns. Here’s a case in point. Electric utilities all over the country, such as New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, are installing “smart meters” in place of the old analog meters with little dials that had to be...
by David Brooks | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I have been measuring daily precipitation for eight years for CoCoRaHS, a “citizen science” weather data-gathering program. The biggest thing I have learned is to not take snow measurements very seriously. The days are long gone when I’d brag that my...
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