by David Brooks | Oct 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I have two “lazy” compost piles, one for food waste and one for leaves. I throw stuff in a pile and leave it to rot in the open – no mixing, no watering, no balancing carbon/nitrogen. I’ve been doing this for decades, and it surprises me how...
by David Brooks | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
White-nose syndrome obliterating entire species of bats. Chytridiomycosis devastating frogs and salamanders worldwide. Snake fungal disease, a devastating ailment that has just shown up in New England. The fungus carried by emerald ash borers that are wiping out all...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A lot of art/science mashups aren’t terribly impressive. They’re often something along the lines of a statue that contains Erlenmeyer flasks, or a fractal picture, or a melody-free song called Quantum Uncertainty. The UNH Center for Acoustics Research and...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There are lots of colorful names for groups of birds – murder of crows, etc. – most of them unofficial and most of them with obscure etymologies. How about “asylum of loons”, one of the terms for a grouping of this usually solitary water bird?...
by David Brooks | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in favor of Portsmouth’s denial of an Airbnb permit. A couple wanted to rent out the house next to them, but the city said zoning wouldn’t allow it. Here’s my story in the Monitor. The ruling is the...
by David Brooks | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I visited Merrimack Station this week, in advance of Saturday protests against the biggest coal-fired power plant in the region (and soon in New England). The big takeaway is that that the plant hardly ever runs – roughly the equivalent of 23 days in all of 2018...
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