by David Brooks | May 1, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(Keep reading to the bottom: There’s an update down there, made in response to some pushback, that undoes my whole argument!) Any time I talk to anybody about energy, I hear lamentation about New Hampshire’s electricity prices. After all, our per-kilowatt...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: Air temperature increases from climate change will make New Hampshire’s streams warmer, according to Dartmouth-led research published in Freshwater Biology that examines the extent to which stream waters are warming, which has implications...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: In birds, females have the ability to control the sex of individual eggs; therefore, a mother may be able to choose whether she prefers each egg laid to be a male or female. From an evolutionary standpoint, this can be very beneficial, as...
by David Brooks | Apr 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Thanks to enthusiasm from the hard-libertarian/Free State folks, New Hampshire has long seemed to be a hotbed of bitcoin/cryptocurrency/blockchain enthusiasm. So I was surprised that the consumer-finance site RewardExpert ranked us as just 24th on the list of Top...
by David Brooks | Apr 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Now that winter has finally departed, it is time to plan some outdoor hikes. Let me recommend climbing Mount Kearsarge in Warner so you can check out one of the state’s most interesting bits of graffiti, a carving that celebrates the plane-geometry precision that...
by David Brooks | Apr 24, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From US Geological Survey: Earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains can cause noticeable ground shaking at much farther distances than comparably-sized earthquakes in the West. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake in 2011 in Mineral, Virginia, was felt up to 600 miles from the...