by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Bans on sending food waste into landfills haven’t worked in any state except Massachusetts, according to a new story, and even there the result wasn’t overwhelming. The Washington Post has a story. The study identified several factors that could explain...
by David Brooks | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The Department of the Interior Monday announced it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale on Oct. 29, for eight areas on the Outer Continental Shelf off Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. If fully developed, these areas have a potential capacity of...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Much of social media is nasty, as we all know, but there are places where it is charming. One of those is the Reddit subgroup about composting. Yes, composting. Every day people from around the world post pictures on the group showing their pile of rotting food in the...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
I don’t think any of the winners of 2024 Ig Nobel awards had a New Hampshire connection, although I’m jet-lagged from vacation so may have missed a Dartmouth fellow or something like that. The ceremony, as I noted, returned to MIT from Harvard this year....
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire’s NH Lakes program puts people (volunteers? maybe they get a small stipend) on boat ramps at various lakes to try and keep people from accidentally hauling invasive species from one waterbody to the next. InDepthNH, an independent online news...
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Today’s insight into the scientific method is brought to you via a nondescript ocean dweller with the unlyrical name of lumpfish. The lumpfish, as I learned from a UNH press release, was the subject of recent research by Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild, a professor in the...