by David Brooks | Jul 10, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Bloomberg Green has a story about heat domes, like the one that roasted us last week, and how their behavior is confounding weather forecasters. (The whole story is behind a paywall but you can read most of it if you subscribe to their Green Daily newsletter.)...
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
OK, they’re not really backpacks, they’re solar-powered tags that let UNH researchers see where the salt marsh sparrows are going as part of preservation efforts. Sensors in the field spick up signals as the birds fly by. NHPR has the story here. The...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Canary Media looked at New England’s response to the recent heat dome and said, as I have, that 21st-century energy (solar, batteries) saved our bacon: As temperatures across New England soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, solar panels and...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
NOTE: Her talk is Thursday, July 9. Nancy-Lee Rodden was given an unexpected task after she got an accounting degree in college and started working. “One of my first jobs was to figure out how much it cost to build a space suit,” said Rodden, a native of Nashua. The...
by David Brooks | Jul 7, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through July 6. Randomized SPI for Distributed IPsecPARALLEL WIRELESS, INC.,...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I was on vacation playing with a grandchild during last week’s heat dome, so I didn’t pay much attention to the details. Now I’m back at work and wondering: How bad was it? Bad, of course. The state’s official thermometer at Concord airport broke the daily heat record...