by David Brooks | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you scroll through the list of the 255 official highway historical markers maintained by the state of New Hampshire, you will find 21 bridges, two memorials to the 45th parallel, several references to Daniel Webster and a few oddities, like the sign labeled...
by David Brooks | Aug 15, 2018 | Newsletter
A poorly understood disease affecting white pines is forcing Concord to cut virtually all the trees off a small parcel of land on Loudon Road, reflecting growing difficulties with urban trees like that seen last year when the city had to remove the red pines from...
by David Brooks | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: The recent launch of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station marks the beginning of a seven-year mission to learn more about the sun and solar wind — the energetic particles it creates that can pose...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH will have a role in the Parker Solar Probe that was launched Sunday by NASA. Apparently, however, NASA has hired the person who convinced Prince to change his name to an unpronounceable symbol because the instruments that UNH will be operating have been given an...
by David Brooks | Aug 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you lived here 13,000 years ago, you wouldn’t have much choice for Christmas trees: It was spruce and jack pine everywhere you looked. That’s one of the conclusions (although they don’t phrase it that way) from an analysis of multiple studies of...