by David Brooks | Oct 27, 2015 | None, Science-Technology
Conferences about climate change tend to focus on atmospheric molecules and energy density, but an interestingly different conversation this past weekend in Hampton centered on building codes and cigarettes. Cigarettes? I’ll get to that in a minute. The conference was...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
If New Hampshire wants to get more females interested in computer science, they’d better get cracking, judging from high schoolers’ interest: For every N.H. girl who took the AP exam in computer science last May, 7.47 boys took it. That 7.47-to-1 ratio is...
by David Brooks | Oct 26, 2015 | Blog
The Portland Press-Herald is in the midst of an excellent, in-depth series about changes happening in the Gulf of Maine due to acidification, invasive species, and other stresses – mostly a rise in sea temperatures: “Since 2004 the Gulf of Maine has warmed...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog
Sometimes being a reporter is a lot of fun – like this morning, when I covered a pheasant release by N.H. Fish & Game. I took the above picture with my phone while holding a light pole for Geoff Forester – it provided a 1/10,000th-second flash so he...
by David Brooks | Oct 23, 2015 | Blog
There’s not a lot of geekery in my Monitor story today about efforts to reopen long-closed Tenney Mountain Ski Area – but check out Geoff Forester’s photo of the pump-house. Four huge diesel engines, consuming 5,000 gallons of fuel a day, are needed...
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