by David Brooks | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Suncook River in Epsom jumped its banks during the 2006 Mother’s Day Flood and moved into a sand pit, much to the dismay of the sand pit’s owners and owners of other nearby property. It has been chewing its way through the sandy banks ever since, to...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
(If you want to listen instead of read, listen to me talk about this weird topic with Peter Biello on NHPR) If you’d like to see an intriguing example of how technology can alter human behavior, pause on the landing between the first and second floors of Concord City...
by David Brooks | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Last year I reported on a law to study what to do about driverless cars in NH – it was sent to a study committee, which can be sensible for a death knell, depending on how it goes – but the pace of autonomous vehicle adoption just keeps speeding up. A bill...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
If you want a lesson on why running the state’s oldest short-line railroad is tough business, consider the 1994 Retsoff Salt Mine failure, when a small earthquake flooded a mine in western New York State that had been producing road salt for a century. Why does a...
by David Brooks | Oct 9, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to convincing the public to support the ecosystem known as early successional forests, Scot Williamson of the Wildlife Management Institute knows he’s got a problem. “They’re ugly,” he said Tuesday. That name doesn’t help, either. “You won’t hear me say...
by David Brooks | Oct 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
By UNH News Service: After 26 years, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed a surprising, cyclical response: Soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon release from the soil to the...
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