by David Brooks | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As I noted in October, there are two companies with a presence in New Hampshire developing or selling “flying cars” (more accurately called planes that can drive on roads). One is Terrafugia, which has been developing a four-wheel car with folding wings in...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The National Science Board has issued its 2020 Science and Engineering Indicators report, which looks at things like college degrees and spending on research and start-ups. Some conclusions for New Hampshire in 2018: About 5.3% of people working in New Hampshire were...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A little state-by-state crunching of numbers by a site called Green Car Congress found that in 2018, Vermonters drove more piles per person than other New England states – even more than Maine, which is much bigger. STATE – Miles per capita – rank...
by David Brooks | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Rabies is a complicated disease with different strains that affect different animals species differently, and their prevalence waxes and wanes over the years for reasons not always obvious to us. The announcement that a coyote strangled by a New Hampshire dad after it...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The N.H. Stone Wall Mapping program is an online project that lets people identify stone walls via LIDAR images of the region. As of this moment, they have found 12,700 miles of walls all over New Hampshire. (I wrote about the project a year ago) (Only Strafford...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is (finally) doing something to encourage electric vehicles in the state, using some of its Volkswagen dieselgate money to prod some fast-charging corridors. I’ve written about it many times – the U-L has a nice update. The contract starts in...
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