by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2015 | Blog
The Bangor Daily News reports that the tallest chestnut tree in North America has been found in Maine, not far from the New Hampshire border. It may not be the biggest, because others are fatter, but it’s taller by a good 20 feet over the next competitor. The...
by David Brooks | Nov 27, 2015 | Blog
A site called Decluttr, a place for selling used CDs, has created one of those comparing-states maps using data from Google. Most such maps are pretty lame (“what’s the drunkest state?!”) but this one is clever: “Using data from Google Trends...
by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Health, None
New Hampshire got the benefit this year of the ebb and flow of West Nile virus and EEE, two widespread mosquito-borne diseases, but that doesn’t mean either one is going away. Testing in 2015 found no people and just one animal – a raven – positive for West Nile...
by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
These photos were sent from the recent launch of the weather balloon in New Hampshire as part of the educational/research project known as SMART (I wrote about it last week). When the balloons get to 90,000 to 100,000 feet up, the air is so thin that the pressure of...
by David Brooks | Nov 26, 2015 | Blog
(This story ran in Wednesday’s Monitor, but I couldn’t post it yesterday because of GraniteGeek’s web hosting problems) If you hope to unwrap a new drone for Christmas, be ready to register with the government – an idea that isn’t necessarily...
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