by David Brooks | Apr 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote recently about how human medicine and veterinary medicine are starting to share their efforts fighting the development of antibiotic-resistant disease. (Here is the piece) UNH sent out this item today about one of the main tools in that effort: By Lori Wright,...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Last week I saw a talk by Matt Marulla, former president of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society and a contributing author to the latest edition of The Oxford Astronomy Encyclopedia, about light pollution and the “dark sky” – really, lack thereof...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
You know how freaked out many people and organizations get about wind farms being built on hills in New Hampshire? So freaked out that I suspect there will never another major onshore wind farm built in the state. Now imagine if you wanted to big a super-duper...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
A reader wrote me recently saying that it seems windier in Concord than it did in her youth, and she wondered if climate change was affecting wind speeds. I mentioned this on Twitter to the National Weather Service’s account from Gray, Maine, which also covers...
by David Brooks | Apr 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Interesting new research from UNH using DNA from 50-year-old bobcat skulls found that bobcats’ movement patterns from generation to generation have flipped: Once they were more numerous in southern parts of New England young adults headed to the less hospitable...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Feld schools coordinated by the N.H. Division of Historical Resources’ State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program (SCRAP), will take place this summer in Durham, Livermore Hollow and Pillsbury State Park, where the team will canoe to the survey site searching...
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