by David Brooks | May 27, 2022 | Blog
I have a pleasant little story in the Monitor today (and goodness knows we need a few pleasant little stories) about a historic old phone booth installed in the State House thanks to my favorite New Hampshire museum, The Telephone Museum in Warner. Check it out here...
by David Brooks | May 26, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It sometimes seems that all of the unpleasant politics from my youth is being resurrected, both domestic and international – from the neo-John-Birch-Society wing overtaking the GOP (I recently saw a “better dead than Red” sticker, for crying out...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
That automated weather station tested on Mount Washington (as noted here in Nov. 2020) has been placed on Mount Everest and is reporting weather data, as National Geographic notes in a story with some excellent video. It’s worth clicking through to check it out:...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2022 | Blog
One of the (many) unsettling things about COVID-19 and other contagious diseases is that they’re invisible. You walk into a room and have no idea whether it’s safe or teeming with SARS-CoV2 virus particles floating on invisible aerosol droplets. One way to...
by David Brooks | May 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week’s news that the destruction of ash trees by an invasive beetle has driven a 168-year-old New Hampshire company to close was sad to hear, but since there are three different biocontrol species being released in the state, the problem will soon be fixed....
by David Brooks | May 23, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
As the saying goes, build a better feller-buncher and the forestry world will beat a path to your door. But that’s assuming you can get financing, technical help and development space — exactly the issue that a four-month program is trying to tackle this summer. “The...
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