by David Brooks | May 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire has thrown in the towel in its efforts to restore the Atlantic salmon to our rivers – dams, pollution, baby-salmon-eating striped bass and changes in ocean temperature and acidity have proved too much to overcome. But efforts are still going on in...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: If you stumbled on this via Google, check the update (right here) – the owners do look like they’ll open in 2020. The most intriguing techy story out of New Hampshire in the past six months was the proposal by a Utah firm called Q Hydrogen to use...
by David Brooks | May 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You want to know why China stopped accepting most of the plastic and “fiber” (industry term for paper and cardboard) that we shipped them, causing our recycling costs to soar and the industry to freak out? Various geopolitical factors no doubt were a...
by David Brooks | May 28, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A poster of the original German release of Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ in 1927. I am slightly embarrassed that I have never seen “Metropolis”, the 1927 silent film that is generally considered the grandfather of all science fiction movies....
by David Brooks | May 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Concord Monitor has a weekly photo featured called NHsnapshot that has a picture from days gone by. Here is this week’s caption: “A Piper Cub is the first airplane to land on the summit of Mount Washington on March 22, 1947. The aircraft sits on a...
by David Brooks | May 24, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Eversource and officials with UNH and the town of Durham say they’re planning a microgrid in that college town that bring all the benefits that such grids can bring, including resiliency, shaving of peak energy costs and cleaner power. Unlike a similar...
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