by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Do you like data? Do you like data about demographics and economics and other topics that shape how the world works? Of course you do, Granite Geek fan. So UNH Carsey School of Public Policy has a treat for you: They’ve taken “What is New...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The September Science Cafe NH in Concord talked about the state’s options for expanding electric vehicles via charging and other options. It lasted two hours and, as Science Cafe is wont to do, the conversation covered lots of topics from battery chemistry to...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There are a ton of really horrible invasive weeds out there, but Japanese knotweed might be the horriblest. In the UK it has gotten so bad that you have trouble getting a mortgage if the plant is found within seven meters of your property line, partly because its...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire covers about 6 million acres and people were living and traveling all over it for at least 12,000 years before Europeans arrived. But those pre-Contact people didn’t leave much evidence for us to see. The Granite State doesn’t have a stonehenge or huge...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Podcasts can be a terrific source of long-form journalism, but if you don’t have a long commute and don’t want to sit in the living room and listen to the radio the way people did in the 1930’s before TV, podcasts can be too long. That might be a...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Some researchers from Dartmouth are among the many scientists participating in a research project that involves a ship getting frozen into the Arctic ice for a year. That’s not an original idea – the great polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen did it 120 years...
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