by David Brooks | Jan 29, 2018 | Blog
An unlikely combination of China’s economic power and plastic bags’ physical messiness has brought new restrictions to curbside recycling in Concord. Concord has increased its efforts to keep plastic bags and plastic film such as cellophane or Bubble Wrap out of its...
by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers know that my favorite Granite Geek story of recent time involves Dartmouth research into why mathematicians love blackboards. (“Just as surely as a+b=b+a, mathematicians love their blackboards”) So I was delighted to stumble across another...
by David Brooks | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Fans of Stirling engines (and they certainly exist – I get emails from one or two every month) will have to wait longer before this technology shows up in Concord: Nobody wants to provide one of these engines for a test of the technology in a state-owned...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The lobster population in the Gulf of Maine has been doing quite well in recent years, which is why I can get chicken lobsters for $4 a pound or sometimes even less! But this seems to be a short-term trend; the warming north Atlantic has pretty much killed off...
by David Brooks | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The eastern cougar is a subspecies of the big cat also known as mountain lion, puma, catamount and a few other names. It once existed throughout the Eastern Seaboard, but it was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011 because it hadn’t...
by David Brooks | Jan 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
After Volkswagen was caught letting people die for profit – not sure how else to describe years of effort to hide the fact that their diesel cars spewed out too much cancer-causing and respiratory-disease-causing particles – they agreed to fork over lots...
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