by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Sewalls Falls Recreation Area in north Concord is a lovely spot along the Merrimack River that includes some big, decaying industrial buildings, old cement walls and weird piles of rock in the river. It’s all the result of the area’s history as a pre-World...
by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
By Sarah Schaier, UNH| Hagfish slime, which has been described as the grossest super-material in existence, might be one of the most unique biomaterials known known to humankind — and UNH scientist and assistant professor David Plachetzkihas received a grant from the...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Nashua is launching a pay-for-parking-via-app system, as reported in the Nashua Telegraph: Starting on Main Street, small decals with a four-digit number will be affixed to the meters at all of the roughly 900 spots, moving outward to the other parking zones during...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE JULY 8: Ethan DeWitt has a followup analysis which says that in theory this leaves NH open to any and all autonomous car testing, since we have no laws addressing them at all. Read it here. A fatal crash involving a self-driving car in Arizona was one of the...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a story in the Monitor today about a program at a Rockywold-Deephaven Camps in Holderness that uses ice blocks, cut from Squam Lake in January, to keep food cold in “ice boxes”. You should check it out because it’s got great photos of hauling...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of my favorite stories of recent weeks involved an electrician who wanted to goof off but whose whereabouts were monitored by management via his GPS. He couldn’t turn it off because they’d know, so instead he stuck inside one of those shiny foil potato...