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...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As a newspaper reporter in New England, I often stumble across the fact that many of our states share town names – e.g., Milford, Mass., and Milford, N.H., and Milford, Maine, and Milford, Conn. It can get very confusing if they’re near each other, which...
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