by David Brooks | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Food and Drug Administration is backing down on the much-ridiculed requirement that labels on maple syrup and honey list them as having “added sugar”. The issue produced a lot of predictable “how stupid can they be????” comments and...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog
As always, Science Cafe NH in Concord is free and open to all. It starts at 6 p.m. upstairs at The Draft Sports Bar, 67 S. Main St. Come early if you want a good seat. It might be hard to believe that it has been five whole years since New Hampshire approved...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive but the existence of an elusive type of black hole, known as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is hotly debated. New research coming out...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property along the New Hampshire seacoast is likely to face damage from frequent flooding caused by rising sea levels within the next three decades, claims the latest report trying to quantify the effect of climate change on...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire recently analyzed effectiveness of Unmanned Aerial Systems – that’s drones, to you and me – to collect meaningful information...
by David Brooks | Jun 14, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The two-steps-forward-three-sideways-and-one-back journey of ranked-choice voting in Maine appears to have finally crossed the finish line: Voters in Tuesday’s primary approved keeping the system for the November election by a pretty hefty margin, roughly 54% to...
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