by David Brooks | May 9, 2019 | Blog
You can listen to me talk about the collapse of recycling with Chris Ryan on Concord’s WKXL radio (here) or you can listen to me talk to the Monitor’s Steve Leone on our Granite Geek podcast (here). Or I suppose you could listen to one with your left and...
by David Brooks | May 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A 3-D printer the size of a small room that can produce pieces up to 6 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet made of a 50-50 mix of plastic resins and wood cellulose, at the rate of 110 pounds an hour, is being installed at the University of Maine, with hopes that it will open new...
by David Brooks | May 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As I mentioned in March, an effort to develop a genetically modified American chestnut tree to resist the blight that largely destroyed the species a century ago has split long-running effort to develop a resistant strain through cross-breeding. Researchers at the New...
by David Brooks | May 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
150 years ago a New Hampshire native named Thomas Hall received U.S. Patent No. 89,308 for improved electrical signals to trains – basically, using new-fangled electricity to move large round signals known as a “banjo switch” to let train engineers...
by David Brooks | May 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire is one of five ocean science institutions chosen by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) over the next five years to explore an estimated three billion acres of U.S. ocean territory as part...
by David Brooks | May 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The collapse of the American recycling industry has made me face what has been true all along: Recycling is a band-aid at best and a distraction at worst. This is depressing because I’ve been something of a recycling rock star and feeling very impressed with...
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