by David Brooks | Apr 13, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As I have noted before, research indicates that mowing your yard every other week instead of every week can help native pollinators and bees. But I also noted that this goes against advice to reduce tick populations in your yard, because ticks like longer grass...
by David Brooks | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Fans of tiny houses will have to wait longer to see if New Hampshire lawmakers will embrace them, as a bill to ease approval of the structures is going to a study committee. The state Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a bill...
by David Brooks | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Note to print readers of the Monitor: Yes, the story in print said “1200 band modem” – I’ll have to blame that one on an editor who’s probably too young to remember when modem speeds were a topic of conversation.)(I can’t be too...
by David Brooks | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(I seem to be a branch office of the UNH pressroom this week, but so be it: they’ve generated some interesting stuff.) From UNH News Service: In a first-of-its-kind observation, researchers from the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center have...
by David Brooks | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found a dramatic decline of 14 wild bee species that are, among other things, important across the Northeast for the pollination of major local crops like apples, blueberries and cranberries....
by David Brooks | Apr 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
When I saw the press release about this research (here it is) I wasn’t sure that I could make a column out of it, so I seized on the “big molecule” angle. Now that it’s in print, I’m still not sure I can make a column out of it. But...
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