by David Brooks | Jul 2, 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...
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A New Hampshire man has been hospitalized with symptoms consistent with rabies after being bitten by his pet raccoon, leading Fish and Game to remind people to stay away from wild animals because of the danger of the deadly disease. Rabies is almost always fatal in...
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s something a bit odd about the framed drawing that hangs on the wall of Revelstoke Coffee: It keeps changing itself. “We were brainstorming and I thought, what if it is art that makes art?” said Richard Stoyle, who built the computer-controlled device that has...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A few weeks ago a reader suggested I write about beech leaf disease, but I said it wasn’t that big a deal. Then I went for a walk in the woods and was astonished – but not in a good way. “Our beech has been dealing with bark disease for so long they’re already in...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 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 June 29. Iron Nanoparticles and Methods of Production UNIVERSITY OF NEW...
by David Brooks | Jun 19, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
An online news source with the clumsy name The Conversation has a long, well-reported piece on why ticks carry so many bad diseases. You can read it here. Contained in every bite of this infuriating, insatiable pest is also a trove of social, environmental and...
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