by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2024 | Blog
There’s no Granite Geek next week – it’s Christmas after all! – so here’s an advance look at next week’s Monitor column. There’s a standard way to shut down physics cranks who say they’ve disproved Einstein –for some reason, cranks...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Canada lynx, the big-footed cousin of bobcats, are making it back into northern New England, as VTDigger notes in this story, which understandably has a Vermont focus. No guarantees it will continue, of course, but let’s hope. “The future presence of lynx in...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s embarrassing that it took a guy from New York to teach me a cool piece of ecological history in a local spot I’ve been to multiple times. And via YouTube, no less – egad! The spot is Dublin Pond, also called Dublin Lake, which is halfway between Peterborough and...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Childhood flu vaccination is down 7% nationally this year compared to last year and the decline is a lot worse locally, reports Axios Boston: In Massachusetts, 58.7% of kids were vaccinated in the 2023-2024 season compared to 53.6% in the current 2024-2025 season (as...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From PSU: With a two-year, $192,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), researchers at the Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute at Plymouth State University (PSU) will comb through nearly a century’s worth of snowpack data from across...
by David Brooks | Dec 13, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
That headline isn’t the way Gov. Sununu would put it but that’s the essence of his letter to the Biden administration – here’s an IndepthNH story about it – in which he said the administration needs to “become the leader of this national...
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