by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are plenty of places that do take-offs on the college basketball playoffs called March Madness (I like the March Mammal Madness bracket) so here’s one that you can participate in: CoCoRaHS March Madness. The Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow Network...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the great pleasures of being a reporter is stumbling onto stuff you didn’t know – like the way New Hampshire issues about 140 permits a year for people to do gold prospecting in our rivers and streams. There’s gold in them thar White...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Great line in a Gizmodo story (worth reading: right here) about a variant of the CRISPR technique being eyed for killing “superbug” bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics: If CRISPR-Cas9 is a genetic scalpel, CRISPR-Cas3 is a chainsaw. As the story...
by David Brooks | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Mashable has a good discussion of how insanely warm February has been in the U.S. (Concord, for example, broke a 142-year-old record for high temperarue on Feb. 22): Through Feb. 22, daily record highs have been blowing away daily record lows by a greater than...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Nature has been honing the design of plant cells for many megaclarke years (to use the Potrzebie Systems of Weights and Measures because – well, why not?) and has developed some very tough cell walls, especially in cellulose, which acts as a support system for...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
This item appeared in last week’s Granite Geek newsletter. You can subscribe to the free publication by clicking here and filling out a mildly-but-not-too-annoying form: Our family’s 2003 Honda Civic hybrid recently passed the 230,000-mile mark – an...
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