by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive but the existence of an elusive type of black hole, known as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is hotly debated. New research coming out...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property along the New Hampshire seacoast is likely to face damage from frequent flooding caused by rising sea levels within the next three decades, claims the latest report trying to quantify the effect of climate change on...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire recently analyzed effectiveness of Unmanned Aerial Systems – that’s drones, to you and me – to collect meaningful information...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The two-steps-forward-three-sideways-and-one-back journey of ranked-choice voting in Maine appears to have finally crossed the finish line: Voters in Tuesday’s primary approved keeping the system for the November election by a pretty hefty margin, roughly 54% to...
by David Brooks | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Over the years, I have written a few articles that have drawn reader criticism (and by “a few” I mean “more than a few”), but I’m not sure I’ve ever been chastised quite so elegantly as I was after last week’s column describing my homemade tick-killing tubes. “I am...
by David Brooks | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We’d be right about there, according to a website called Ancient Earth globe. Look at plate-tectonic-shifted Africa and Europe. Plus: No icecaps, so the oceans were a lot higher. I learned about it in this article from Kottke.org.