by David Brooks | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The sports-shoe company Nike tried to get somebody to break the two-hour barrier in running the marathon (26.2 miles). The effort fell just short, but as UNH reports, part of the preparation included wind tunnel tests in Durham at the UNH flow physics facility, which...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Every few years a new study comes out about geothermal power in the U.S., which means that every few years I can talk about how the Conway region is one of the most likely places for geothermal power in the Northeast. I mean real geothermal, which uses high...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
As promised last week, I’m hosting a talk next Tuesday (Sept. 26) after a showing of “Counting From Infinity” – here’s my column from the Monitor discussing it: No matter how many bar arguments you’ve been involved in, I’ll bet you’ve...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Concord TV, the community access channel in the state capitol, films each month’s Science Cafe Concord and puts it online. They share the file with other community-access channels across the country and tell me that lots of other stations rebroadcast it. We seem...
by David Brooks | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s pretty much de rigueur for New England news outlets to run some sort of “ever wonder why leaves change color each fall?” story each fall. Since this is a blog, I don’t have to write it – I can steal it! There are plenty of places to...
by David Brooks | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are a lot of insect pests that don’t thrive in New Hampshire because of our cold winters. Our winters are getting less cold, or at least less long, and some of them are sneaking north with dire consequences. One of those is the hemlock wooly adelgid, which...