by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
This year is proving to be a good one in New Hampshire, if a slightly puzzling one, for the most iconic of all butterfly species – and sorry, Karner blue, but we mean the monarch butterfly. “It’s been a fantastic year for monarchs. People keep bringing containers of...
by David Brooks | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Portland, Maine, and Manchester, N.H., don’t have as much of a rivalry as they should. Both are the biggest cities in their similarly-sized state (both are “queen cities”, the term for a state’s biggest city that isn’t the capital), and...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s been a very long time since I was in college – cue jokes about papyrus scrolls and how math class was easier then because only 8 numerals had been invented – but I still remember how annoying it was to shell out big bucks for the “new...
by David Brooks | Sep 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The concept of mathematical beauty fascinates me – and lots of other people, as the long wikipedia article demonstrates – because it’s such a mix of opposites, the very quantifiable with the very non-quantifiable. There’s no question that some...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I think I’m going to have a Science Cafe NH later this year on the topic of building materials and carbon sequestration. I suspect most of it will cover modern lumber technology like cross-laminated timber, since we have so many trees, but I’d like to find...
by David Brooks | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s not easy to tell the age of a wild animal. That’s why New Hampshire sends 125 bobcat canines, 500 deer incisors, 100 moose incisors and 800 bear premolars to a really funky lab in Montana every year. Yes, you want to know more, which is why you will...
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