by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I am writing a column about arsenic naturally occurring in new Hampshire groundwater, so I thought I’d rerun this 2012 column I wrote for the Telegraph: You think you know New Hampshire? Yeah, me too. So why don’t we know about the Massabesic Gneiss Complex?...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Why would you care about what happens to pieces of wood shoved into forest floors? Because … Science! So says the USDA Northern Forest Research Station: Soil organic matter is key to maintaining site productivity because of its role in water availability,...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Newsletter
This is my Concord Monitor column this week: If you’re reading a column with “geek” in the title, you probably have fond and/or painful memories of being in a science fair. You know the routine: Find a project, run it for weeks or months, record data (maybe fudging it...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are plenty of places that do take-offs on the college basketball playoffs called March Madness (I like the March Mammal Madness bracket) so here’s one that you can participate in: CoCoRaHS March Madness. The Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow Network...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the great pleasures of being a reporter is stumbling onto stuff you didn’t know – like the way New Hampshire issues about 140 permits a year for people to do gold prospecting in our rivers and streams. There’s gold in them thar White...
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