by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a legal fight over federal border checks throughout New Hampshire, which led Seacoast Online to wonder how far into the state the “border” is defined. As they report here, the legal definition (100 air miles from any border) covers virtually...
by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2018 | Blog
An unlikely combination of China’s economic power and plastic bags’ physical messiness has brought new restrictions to curbside recycling in Concord. Concord has increased its efforts to keep plastic bags and plastic film such as cellophane or Bubble Wrap out of its...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers know that my favorite Granite Geek story of recent time involves Dartmouth research into why mathematicians love blackboards. (“Just as surely as a+b=b+a, mathematicians love their blackboards”) So I was delighted to stumble across another...
by David Brooks | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Fans of Stirling engines (and they certainly exist – I get emails from one or two every month) will have to wait longer before this technology shows up in Concord: Nobody wants to provide one of these engines for a test of the technology in a state-owned...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The lobster population in the Gulf of Maine has been doing quite well in recent years, which is why I can get chicken lobsters for $4 a pound or sometimes even less! But this seems to be a short-term trend; the warming north Atlantic has pretty much killed off...
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