by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The death of a New Hampshire man said to be infected with a rare mosquito-borne disease called Jamestown Canyon virus has raised questions as to whether he is its first recorded fatality. Thomas Bengtson’s widow, Susan Bengtson, says two separate tests found evidence...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(This ran Tuesday; on Thursday I’m hunting down reports of a functioning N.H. solar panel installed in 1973 but so far, this one is still the winner.) In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
For decades starting in the Great Depression the use of wood as a heating source in the U.S. declined as it was replaced by coal, oil and electricity. But in the first years of this century wood made a little comeback, fueled (ha!) in part by wood pellet technology,...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Close to 20 years ago (the story is no longer online, so you’ll have to take my word for it) I wrote about Lee Lynd, a professor at Dartmouth who was one of the leading lights in the push to create cellulosic biofuels – that is, biofuel made from the woody...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Granite Staters sometimes quip that New Hampshire is the center of the universe, but is it also the center of the leafhopper universe? Three decades of research by scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog
More non-Hispanic whites are dying than being born in New Hampshire and most of New England for several years now, but a new report finds that this trend has spread to 26 states throughout the country and is now the pattern for the country as a whole. “This is up from...
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