by David Brooks | Feb 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are technical reasons many shooters like the P320 from Sig Sauer in Newington, which won an Army contract that could be worth half a billion dollars. It doesn’t have an external hammer like the P229R and the Beretta M9, the handgun that it replaces for the Army,...
by David Brooks | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog
By Lori Wright, UNH: The White Mountain National Forest is home to nearly 140 species of native bees, including two species of native bumble bees that are in decline in the Northeast, according to researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station who recently...
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...
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