by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog
The hardy kiwi is a variety of the small green fruit that a UNH professor thinks could be a new cash crop for the North Country, if it gets a little more domesticated through breeding. But as is reported in the first episode of a new N.H. Public Radio podcast called...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
Quartz has a post about an attempt to mathematically determine how funny a word is. You can read it here, but be warned: The math is wrong, because it thinks the nonsense word “finglam” is funny. It’s not funny.
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2015 | Blog
The Union-Leader has a good story today (read it here) about Manchester Water Works harvesting red pine trees in watershed land it owns because red pine scale is on the way and will probably kill the trees. Manchester Water Works plans to remove stands of red pine...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
Northern Woodlands is an excellent quarterly magazine from the Center for Northern Woodlands Education in Vermont. It’s a terrific mix of touchy-feely outdoorsy stuff, science reporting on environmental, outdoors, wildlife and other issues, and information...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2015 | Blog
New Hampshire Liberty Forum, an annual gathering of Free Staters and like-minded folks, says the world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, is going to be a keynote speaker at the February meeting in Manchester – which is very cool, regardless of...
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