by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog
You may not realize it but the mantles on gas camping laterns – fabric-like items that glow incredibly brightly with a relatively small amount of fuel – are radioactive. They contain thorium, enough to the point that there are warning labels on these...
by David Brooks | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog
Ranking the 50 states according to this-or-that criteria is always fun, even if clicks-seeking websites have turned it into a joke. Here’s today’s fun ranking: Which states get the most sleep, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The caveat, as is...
by David Brooks | Feb 18, 2016 | Blog
If you want to hear me have trouble pronouncing “micro-prismatic” then you should listen to my weekly chat with Peter Beillo of NH Public Radio. If you don’t want to hear it, you can read the transcript. Here it is, either way.
by David Brooks | Feb 17, 2016 | Blog
Science Cafe New Hampshire in Nashua will discuss the science, medicine and policy needs of heroin and opioids. Panelists are pharmacist Vahrij Manoukian of Hollis Pharmacy; Chris Shambarger, liaison to the NH State Police, Paramedic Patty Stolarz of AMR Nashua, and...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
The twisted compact fluorescent light bulb has long been used as a design element to represent up-to-date technology, but at the rate things are going it will soon be representing out-of-date technology. This begins a brilliantly written, deeply insightful and yet...
by David Brooks | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog
Today’s Concord Monitor has a great piece in The Forum section recently about “shed hunters” – a term that refers to people who hunt for antlers that have been shed in the woods, as compared to people who try to find their garden shed in the...
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