by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Many ginkgo trees are famous for dropping all their leaves at once – whomp! – after the first hard frost. There’s one tree on the Durham campus of UNH and people have kept records on its leaf-drop day since the 1970s. This year’s drop was the...
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Nov. 19. *** Guided Munition Systems for Detecting Off-Axis Targets BAE...
by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Audubon has a long post responding to some people who are alarmed that they’ve seen very few birds at their feeders this year, especially this fall. The post is here. tl’dr – it’s not avian flu, it’s this year’s...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
NH Public Radio’s Todd Bookman has a long, detailed piece out today (here it is) detailing the complicated (and maybe eyebrow-raising) financial benefits that inventor Dean Kamen’s private firms get from the federally funded non-profit ARMI: The federal...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: The city council supported the plan, 6-4, voting “to institute a measure that would capture more of the power McNeil Generating Station cannot use currently, through waste heat, steam and an electric boiler, and pipe it underground to large entities like...
by David Brooks | Nov 17, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin looks at yet another species that is moving north as weather warms: Fiddler crabs. Johnson uses the term “climate migrants” when referring to species like fiddler crabs, blue crabs, and black sea bass, all creatures that have seen expanded...