by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog
From Stat News: Public health officials on Thursday said they had detected a bizarre cluster of cases in which patients in Massachusetts developed amnesia over the past few years — a highly unusual syndrome that could be connected to opioid use. The officials have...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s a bill before the New Hampshire legislature that would shift the authority to amend the list of diseases for which vaccines are required in school, taking it from the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, and giving it to the state...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Everybody in New England – by which I mean me and people I know – has heard of the “January thaw”. This is the expectation that during the middle of this month, temperatures will rise above freezing long enough that skiers will get grumpy and...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH sent out a press release about some interesting research on materials – basically alerting the geometry of shapes that are “chiral,” or asymmetric in particular ways, to create lighter protective foams (or, to be specific, chiral auxetic cellular...
by David Brooks | Jan 23, 2017 | Blog
By Lori Wright, UNH News Service: Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station have found that the economically valuable eastern white pine thrives when the invasive glossy buckthorn shrub is actively managed in New Hampshire forests. The University of New...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe Concord discussed electric cars on Tuesday – it was a full house, despite the snow – and I think the best part came from a 97-year-old audience members who recalled starting his dad’s Model T, which required hand-cranking the engine, and...
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