by David Brooks | Sep 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Cleantechnica reporter (here) that “Alaskan cargo airline Ryan Air in Alaska (not the same Ryanair Europeans are familiar with) has placed an order for a BETA Technologies Alia electric plane and committed to install up to ten of BETA’s Charge Cube charging...
by David Brooks | Sep 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s a video from UNH on construction of IMAP-Lo From UNH News Service: After years in the making, instrumentation designed and built by researchers, engineers and students from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) blasted off on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute has been doing some interesting studies about the state lately. This is from their most recent, concerning the way people get to work: About 16.0 percent, or 121,000 New Hampshire residents age 16 or over who were working in...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the tenets of journalism is that there are no stupid questions, so I guess I’m not embarrassed to ask this: Why hasn’t the Merrimack River run out of water? Think about it. We’ve had almost no rain for two months – this summer was...
by David Brooks | Sep 23, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
A slightly edited press release: This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), a nationally recognized institution dedicated to the education and advancement of cartooning and graphic storytelling located in White River Junction,...
by David Brooks | Sep 22, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve attended more than a dozen Ig Nobel presentations down in Boston and you can’t imagine anything more light-heartened and goofy in an intellectual sort of way, as if a bunch of Gary Larsen cartoons taped to research lab doors came to life. But right...