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...
by David Brooks | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Attempts to bring the Atlantic salmon back to New Hampshire have pretty much fizzled – we’ve given up on the Merrimack River and virtually given up on the Connecticut River. These fish breed in fresh water and live in the ocean so they are hit by changes...
by David Brooks | Jan 18, 2018 | Blog
From UNH News Service: Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale. But in ancient Amazonia, over 500 years ago, clearing tropical forests was a way of survival to provide...
by David Brooks | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The idea of using mathematical algorithms to determine whether electoral districts are fair has gained surprising traction in the past year, including a Jan. 9 federal court ruling that used math to call North Carolina congressional districts biased. Now a lawmaker...
by David Brooks | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In Boothbay, Maine, on a peninsula not too far north of Portland, they tried an experiment starting in 2013. To meet rising power demands, instead of building an $18 million transmission line they set up a bunch of solar panels and batteries, expanded energy...
by David Brooks | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If a gene that normally functions to control cell growth and regulate the ability of neurons to alter the strength of their connections goes haywire, could that contribute to, or even cause, autism? Maybe, judging from some research by Katie Fricano-Kugler, PhD, and...
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