by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Deer, as you probably know, are one of the major carriers of the black-legged tick that spreads Lyme and other nasty parasitic diseases when it bites us. Therefore, having fewer deer around would help control the ailment. But how many deer is enough? An essay by a...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont set a goal of having 20% of its annual electricity come from solar by 2025. It will probably miss that goal by as much as one-half, even though it has installed a lot more solar than New Hampshire. Energy Central has the story (here). Vermont would have to...
by David Brooks | Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Reported by Geoff Forester in today’s Monitor; I helped with the writing: A nationally known computer hacker, a term he wears proudly, helped keep an eye on New Hampshire’s primary Tuesday but says you didn’t need computer smarts to see that it went well. “One...
by David Brooks | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Anybody who measures precipitation, as I do for the citizen-science group CoCoRaHS, knows that measuring snowfall is hard. It drifts, it compresses over time, there’s only a minor correlation between depth and moisture. So it’s hard to study and understand...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Farmers, as you know, grow stuff to eat. Gardeners grow stuff to look at. Or, wait – do they really? That’s the distinction that has always lurked in my head, although I never really thought about it until recently. It turns out that this unspoken assumption, like so...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Addendum: There are two problems with this idea. One is that the Concord tank still has all its workings, including the massive cap that floated on the gas. This is what makes it quite possibly unique among the nation’s gasholder buildings, but it would also...
Return to the Concord Monitor