by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Farming livestock is a good way to celebrate life, but it also requires dealing with death. That can be a problem for small-scale and beginning farmers, including the many people who decided to start raising chickens during the pandemic. “There’s a Facebook group for...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The latest attempt to shift New Hampshire away from daylight-savings switcheroos by putting us permanently on the Atlantic Standard Time (as long as Maine and Massachusetts do it first) is still alive: The House of Representatives has passed HB85 and it’s in...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s been pretty wet in New Hampshire over the past week or so but we’re still in a long-term drought. It’s going to take more than a few normal-precipitation periods to overcome months of sub-normal water from the sky. This raises a question: If I...
by David Brooks | Apr 27, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Complicated new things often have straightforward old things hidden inside. Case in point: Two unrelated prosecutions in New Hampshire of alleged misdeeds involving one of the most bewildering items in the digital universe, blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. Although...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH Today: A new remotely operated sailboat is soon heading for the high seas for proof-of-concept testing, and scientists are hopeful it will offer a boost in efficiency over current mapping efforts. This spring, the Saildrone Surveyor, a 72-foot vessel without...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Seven Days, an excellent independent newspaper in Vermont, had an excellent overview of how climate change and introduced pests are damaging four major tree species in New England – ash, chestnut, red spruce and sugar maple. The story is here.