by David Brooks | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
University of New Hampshire researchers will monitor New Hampshire’s snowpack in real time this winter using snow scales installed at UNH’s Kingman Research Farm, a facility of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. This monitoring will lead to better...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
With the value of the digital money known as bitcoin going crazy in recent months – it could easily increase by $10 in the time it takes you to read this story – bitcoin-friendly businesses have been faced with a dilemma: How do you set prices using a currency that...
by David Brooks | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In a story Saturday I mentioned claims about global energy usage for bitcoin “mining” – using computers to churn through complicated math computations to create new bitcoin. I used the parallel that it requires more energy than all of Ireland, one of...
by David Brooks | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
In all the years that Science Cafe New Hampshire has put on events, some dealing with controversial topics like climate change and vaccinations, only one time have we had to scold audience members for being obnoxious: When we talked about public water fluoridation....
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From Monitor columnist Ray Duckler, an ode to everybody’s least favorite part of Christmas: I hate the thing. Hate it more than the Grinch, more than the Abominable Snowman, more than those romantic, cheesy movies being shown on the Hallmark Channel this month....
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Lobstering has disappeared from Long Island Sound, and now, reports the Boston Globe, it’s gone from anywhere south of Cape Cod as the oceans warm and lobsters die off or move. This is no surprise – here’s a 2015 story from the N.Y. Post after the...
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