by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
You’re familiar, I’m sure, with DNA being used to solve old murder cases. (The Bear Brook case in NH is a classic example.) Beth Potier of UNH wrote an article about a *really* cold case: A UNH biological anthropologist has helped crack a case that turned...
by David Brooks | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A pathologist with the New Hampshire Diagnostic Veterinary Lab at the University of New Hampshire recently diagnosed the fungal disease Valley Fever in a rescue dog from Arizona. It is the first time the lab has diagnosed this disease in a dog...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
For three decades state and federal officials tried to lure Atlantic salmon back into the Merrimack River without success, until they gave up in 2014. They haven’t given up in Maine, and now comes news of a record spawning season in one of the major watersheds,...
by David Brooks | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog
Science Cafe NH in Concord next week (Wednesday, Feb. 23) will take all your questions about alternative voting systems, such as the ranked-choice voting that was such a hit when I ran a test election in the Monitor last month. (“Our experiment showed that some...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
This is an article from the January-February edition of Environmental News, the newsletter of the state Department of Environmnetal Services. It talks about low-level ozone, which we want less of because it’s part of smog – not to be confused with...
by David Brooks | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a large game-hunting park in western New Hampshire that is kind of weird. Called Corbin Park, it covers 25,000 acres or so surrounded by a 26-mile-long fence and is allegedly the biggest park of its kind east of the Mississippi, yet it is open only to 30...
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