by David Brooks | Mar 19, 2016 | Blog
The Monitor has a good story today about the concern that prisons have with drones dropping contraband into the prison yard: “On nine separate occasions over the last six months, corrections workers spotted a drone flying over the (state prison in Concord),...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog
When it comes to invasive species, we care about species from somewhere else that are invading here. But it cuts both ways, as AP reports: Sweden has asked the European Union for help to stop an invasion of American lobsters, saying they could wipe out their European...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog
It’s obvious that burning trees for heat or to create electricity is better from a greenhouse-gas point of view than burning coal and oil, because the trees can regrow and pull back the the carbon they released into the air. Or maybe it’s not so obvious,...
by David Brooks | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog
The Union-Leader reports “Ice-Out on Lake Winnipesaukee is imminent, which means the winter of 2016 will likely have the earliest such call since records have been kept.” This follows what is probably the latest-ever call of “Ice-In”, which...
by David Brooks | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog
They’re started live-streaming a webcam from a peregrine falcon nest in Manchester (here’s the site; it points to two different cameras on the same location) and I’m addicted. I’m not addicted because I’m a bird fanatic, but because the...
by David Brooks | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog
There’s a really neat round brick building in Concord that once held coal gas or “manufactured gas,” the predecessor to natural gas that was made by processing coal. It has been abandoned for decades and is slowly falling apart – an entranceway...
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