by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in February I mentioned that LIDAR mapping of the White Mountains found that Mt. Tecumseh is only 3,995 feet tall, potentially removing it from the list of 4000-footers maintained by the Appalachian Mountain Club. The idea of the iconic list of peaks...
by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a couple of proposed bills in New Hampshire that would sharply limit phone and telecom companies from selling location data scarfed from the always-on corporate spy pretending to be a phone that we carry at all times. As NHPR notes (story is here)...
by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This is my site, so I get to choose the best Granite Geek posts/articles of 2019. Here they are, looking backwards through the year. (What about my favorite post of the decade? Many of the several thousand posts I’ve written over the past 10 years have...
by David Brooks | Dec 26, 2019 | Blog
I am apparently not alone in thinking that advice to save pollinators (let your lawn grow) clashes with advice to avoid ticks around the house (cut the grass short because ticks don’t like heat and dryness). But a (admittedly, very preliminary) study says that...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A British energy company called Highview Power Storage, along with Encore Renewable Energy, a developer of renewable energy generation and storage projects, say they plan to build the United States’ first liquid air energy storage system somewhere in “northern...
by David Brooks | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The National Student Center has released its fall 2019 enrollment estimates for all colleges and universities, and there’ a surprise: Despite the lamentation over dropping numbers of students in the Northeast, enrollment in New Hampshire has risen. I suspect...
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