by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth-Hitchcock: Sepsis kills a quarter of a million Americans each year – as many as stroke and Alzheimer’s combined – but very little has changed in the treatment of this age-old scourge. Now an international group of researchers including...
by David Brooks | Jul 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Archimedes Screw is one of the basic simple machines of proto-technology and except for the inclined plane (which to my mind is too simple to be considered a machine, no matter what they say!) is probably the one still used the most at industrial scale. It’s...
by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
When you operate devices to measure pollution all over New Hampshire, you find a lot of bad news, like ozone pollution from cars in summer and smoke from woodstoves in winter. But sometimes you find good news, too. “Carbon monoxide used to be an issue in urban areas –...
by David Brooks | Jul 16, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A new ocean-going research vessel is on the horizon for scientists at the University of New Hampshire that will expand their capability to track ocean currents, conduct seafloor studies, and further research on food web dynamics and fish...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Green Mount Power, the statewide utility in Vermont, is ahead of the curve on many Grid 2.0 technologies – partly because it’s so small (just 265,000 residential and business customers) that it can “pivot” quickly, partly because its customers...
by David Brooks | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
On most weeks (although not this one, due to scheduling issues) I talk with NHPR’s Peter Biello about my column in the Concord Monitor. Since the listening public can’t get enough of my mellifluous speaking voice, at The Monitor we’ve started an...
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