by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(Are your ears bored? You can listen to me talk about this column with Features Editor Sarah Pearson by clicking right here.) You may have heard that we are facing an insect apocalypse, a portent of the collapse of the global food chain and resulting planetary chaos....
by David Brooks | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: I stupidly didn’t notice, until a commenter pointed it out, that this article talks only about air-to-water heat pumps, which do the harder job of heating up water to be used in home heating, rather than the more common air-to-air system. These...
by David Brooks | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
By coincidence – we’re not that good at planning – the two Science Cafe New Hampshire sessions this month have topic overlaps. On Wednesday, March 13, in Nashua they’re talking about the science of forensics. Panelists Tim Pilleri & Lance...
by David Brooks | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Researchers with Alene Candles, a firm based in Milford, N.H., that is a major contract candle manufacturer, were recently assigned a patent for inventing a new way to make “marbled” candles with swirls of color. Here’s how the company described it:...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Ice storms are everybody’s least favorite type of winter weather. Unless you’re a certain kind of scientist, that is; then they’re fascinating in a scary sort of way. “When you first start doing the icing, with the sprayer slowly going back and forth, coating dowels...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
I know what I’m doing 1,869 days from now. Do you? I’ll be watching the full solar eclipse in Littleton or thereabouts. If you want to be there, too, don’t wait too long to do your planning. “By the time you’re down to a year, or a few months, it’s too late –...