by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe NH in Nashua moved to a new venue last night – Riverwalk Cafe downtown, a very nice space – to discuss the technology of prosthetics, or replacement limbs. My favorite story came from Matt Albuquerque, founder of Next Step Bionics &...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in 2011, there was a battle in New Hampshire between biologists and pet owners about whether to allow people to own monk parakeets, a.k.a. Quaker parrots. which have become an invasive pest up through the southern bits of Connecticut. They can damage certain...
by David Brooks | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When Dartmouth’s C. Robertson McClung heard that the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine had been given for work done in his own research field – the genetic underpinnings of the daily life cycles known as circadian rhythms – he swears his reaction was not, as mine...
by David Brooks | Oct 3, 2017 | Newsletter
This article ran in the Monitor a few weeks ago, and for some reason I forgot to put it in the newsletter – so here it is: In his 20 years as New Hampshire’s medical examiner, Dr. Thomas Andrew has consulted with medical specialists, weapons specialists,...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It might seem crazy that a private company says it wants to operate passenger train service in New Hampshire’s Merrimack River valley – an idea that has been fiercely debated for decades – by running on a different company’s tracks. It’s not crazy at all: Just look...
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