by David Brooks | Apr 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Earth Challenge 2020 has launched – an interesting program with two goals. First goal is to aggregate existing citizen science from around the world and make it interoperable, creating a coordinated point of entry for the research and public policy community. ...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA have selected the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center to design and build a specialized instrument to improve space weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities. The...
by David Brooks | Apr 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Dairy farms are bad from the climate-change point of view, but I’ve always loved visiting them. (Working at them, with those 6 a.m. milkings, might be another matter.) So I jumped at the chance to write about Contoocook Creamery, which unusually for small New...
by David Brooks | Apr 18, 2020 | Blog
No peak yet, alas. Glass half full: Growth is linear, not exponential. (Testing is so limited that it’s hard to know what to make of that, however.)
by David Brooks | Apr 16, 2020 | Blog
I’m not a stats guy so I can’t vouch for the superiority of the method, but today I took my chart listing the daily count of newly confirmed COVID cases in New Hampshire and added a 5-day moving average line. Each point on the red line line of the chart...
by David Brooks | Apr 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Here’s a bit of good news: The National Arboretum says (article here) it has developed a strain of hemlock tree that is resistant to the wooly adelgid, a sap-sucking pest that is decimating populations of the tree throughout the Eastern Seaboard. New Hampshire...
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