by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Serita Frey, a soil microbiologist and a professor at UNH in Durham, got curious and found old data about the date that a campus ginko tree dumps its leaves in late fall. (The species famously drops all its leaves at once, like a strip tease for attention-deficit...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a really complicated dance going on in Northern New England’s forests right now involving loggers – the folks who are either arboreal eco-villains or a vital part of the forest-human ecosystem, depending on your point of view. (I lean toward...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular Granite Geek readers (hi, dad!) are qjuite familiar with Betty and Barney Hill, the Portsmouth couple who say they were taken aboard an alien spaceship in 1961, launching the whole alien-abduction craze. They’ve been the subjects of books, a movie (James...
by David Brooks | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Keeping the ocean away is hard, especially when it just keeps getting closer. One good idea to let Mother Nature help – hence, as NHPR reports, efforts on the Seacoast to plant beach grass to help build up and maintain barriers. In places like Seabrook, many...
by David Brooks | Nov 7, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: This item, my column in the Concord Monitor, ran Tuesday morning, on election day. Manchester voters soundly rejected any change, choosing the original flag by a margin of 15-1 over any other choice, reports the Union-Leader. I didn’t realize I had such...
by David Brooks | Nov 3, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Every year ISO New England, the organization that runs the six-state New England power grid, issues its Regional System Plan, which reports on the current situation and makes predictions over the next decade. Below is their summary of highlights – including the...
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