by David Brooks | Jun 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s annoying that snow melts and then you have to wait for it to fall again – so why not try to keep it from melting in the first place? Even if you have to keep it all summer. That’s being done at some European and Canadian ski areas, struggling...
by David Brooks | Jun 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Maine is set to become the first state to try ranked-choice voting on statewide ballots in a primary next week, although as the Portland Press-Herald notes, there’s a twist (there’s always a twist in this story): Maine voters will finally get their chance...
by David Brooks | Jun 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: It doesn’t matter if it’s a forest, a soybean field, or a prairie, all plants take up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis – the process where they use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into food. During this changeover, the plants...
by David Brooks | Jun 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
My most recent attempt to fight the scourge of tick-borne disease felt like Easter morning. Not because I was dressed up and going to church, but because my wife and I were hiding funny-looking objects all around the yard, wondering if we’d remember where we had put...
by David Brooks | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The city of Concord is now part of a long-running push by a Keene group to bring back the American elm tree from destruction, having planted 11 disease-resistant Liberty elms around the city. The trees, each weighing about 1,200 pounds and standing 20 feet tall, were...
by David Brooks | May 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH has been involved in space science for 64 years, so they put together a cool graphic about it, with bragging numbers like 36 current satellites have UNH instruments on board, and the fact that they manage the magnetometer on Voyager I, which is now 13 billion...
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