by David Brooks | Sep 2, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe in Nashua will discuss PFAs at their session Sept. 16 (a Tuesday). This is a topic that has grown from “there’s one bad place in Merrimack” to “those things are absolutely everywhere” which makes the response much more...
by David Brooks | Aug 28, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
News from Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, where low water flows are making it hard to collect samples, which has been done for decades: Tammy Wooster of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is based at Hubbard Brook and travels into the Forest to collect...
by David Brooks | Aug 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
NHPR has an interview (here) with a UFO podcast guy – a serous one, not a goofball – that reminded me how Betty & Barney Hills’ alien abduction could eventually be hitting movie theaters: “Toby Ball is an author and host of the podcast...
by David Brooks | Aug 27, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
I haven’t seen many fireflies at my house this year but perhaps I’m an anomaly. The Monitor has a story saying their numbers are good in New Hampshire – you can read it here. On top of that, the northeast experienced a wetter-than-average fall two...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 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 Aug. 24. ***Fluid Detection Systems and Methods Using the Same WATTS...
by David Brooks | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
Nashua, N.H., has put out some of those Big Belly solar trash cans onto the street; they compact the trash to reduce the amount of times staff has to empty them. Paul Shea, a member of the Nashua Board of Public Works who has long been active in the city, put up a...