by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: In birds, females have the ability to control the sex of individual eggs; therefore, a mother may be able to choose whether she prefers each egg laid to be a male or female. From an evolutionary standpoint, this can be very beneficial, as...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Thanks to enthusiasm from the hard-libertarian/Free State folks, New Hampshire has long seemed to be a hotbed of bitcoin/cryptocurrency/blockchain enthusiasm. So I was surprised that the consumer-finance site RewardExpert ranked us as just 24th on the list of Top...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Now that winter has finally departed, it is time to plan some outdoor hikes. Let me recommend climbing Mount Kearsarge in Warner so you can check out one of the state’s most interesting bits of graffiti, a carving that celebrates the plane-geometry precision that...
by David Brooks | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From US Geological Survey: Earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains can cause noticeable ground shaking at much farther distances than comparably-sized earthquakes in the West. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in 2011 in Mineral, Virginia, was felt up to 600 miles from the...
by David Brooks | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s considerable debate as to the environmental value of burning for heat or power. I’ve written about it, and we hosted a Science Cafe NH in Concord about it. The conclusion is: It depends. Don’t clear-cut mature forests just to make chips for...
by David Brooks | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Electrify America, a portion of the settlement program from Volkswagen’s diesel cheating scandal, said today it will build an electric vehicle supercharging network across the U.S., to rival Tesla’s. Construction is promised to be finished by June 2019....