by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: From Maine to West Virginia, the Northeast has seen a larger increase in extreme precipitation than anywhere else in the U.S. Prior research found that these heavy rain and snow events, defined as a day with about two inches of...
by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We’re all familiar with crime-scene forensics, or at least the TV version that is the central plot point for every single cop show, but I must admit the concept of cell-phone forensics is new to me. Fortunately for the hiker who was lost for two days in the snow in...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The battle against insects that are attacking New Hampshire’s forests takes place on many fronts, but none is more important than one of the state’s largest gas-fired ovens, a converted shipping container where hundreds of thousands of pieces of camp firewood have...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you’re a wikipedia wonk, the sort of person who reads not just the articles but the associated Talk pages where editors discuss the article, you might have seen the claim earlier this week on the Talk page for Mt. Washington that the peak broke its all-time...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We’ve put a couple more of our low-budget (i.e., no budget) Granite Geek podcast series, in which Features Editor Sarah Pearson asks me to talk about some story I’ve written recently and I blather on and on until she turns off the mic in desperation. (She...
by David Brooks | Jul 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(This is my Concord Monitor column this week. If you want to hear me talk about it, and hear a colleague tell me that the premise of the whole story is baloney, check the podcast we made. It’s only a few minutes long.) I have some shocking news. You may want to...