by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From New Hampshire Fish and Game: It was a difficult summer for the state-endangered and federally threatened piping plovers on Hampton and Seabrook beaches this year. This summer, three pairs nested on Hampton Beach with two chicks fledged (25+ days old), while on...
by David Brooks | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a Massachusetts firm among the 14 wannabe finalists for the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge, but nobody from New Hampshire made the list. The competition is a sort of mini X-Prize-ish attempt to push innovation in an area that doesn’t get a lot of...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
From Crispin Battles, Marketing Director for the Mt. Washington Auto Road: Completed in 1861, the road to the summit the Northeast’s highest mountain was originally referred to as the Mt. Washington Carriage Road. Motorized vehicles were still several decades...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
My wife and I have two manual-transmission cars (although one of them is about to die due to body rust, just short of 250,000 miles). Increasingly, this means nobody can borrow them because fewer people learn, or remember, how to drive a manual transmission:...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Over a period of three to four days, Hurricane Harvey has dumped more than 45 inches of rain over large swaths of Texas. That’s a staggering number, and it led one reader to call the newsroom with a question: What would happen if that much rain fell on Concord?...
by David Brooks | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
You’ve heard, of course, about the Internet of Things plenty of times in this column. Maybe it’s time for a different IoT: the Internet of Tomatoes. “About 88 percent of farms around the U.S. are small and medium size, and of those, nearly 100 percent have no...
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