by David Brooks | Mar 17, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
The story of a young female fisher who walked from a UNH parking lot all the way to Franconia Notch looking to establish a new home is intriguing, despite its sad ending. But the really interesting part is what it says about the way technology is giving us incredible...
by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2026 | 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 in the week through March 15. System and Method to Detect the Presence and...
by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
I still had 16 inches of snow in my yard last week (it’s mostly gone now) so it seems like it was a cold, harsh winter. Not so, reports Scientific American in this story. Nowhere in the U.S. had a record cold winter this year. Nowhere even came close.What did...
by David Brooks | Mar 13, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
On the assumption that the Venn diagram of geeks and hikers has a lot of overlap, some news: New Hampshire’s 161-mile section of the Appalachian Trail saw 2.88 million “recreational visits” in 2025, according to estimates from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, making...
by David Brooks | Mar 12, 2026 | Newsletter
Northern Woodland Magazine has a great, detailed explanation of the debate going on right now around the Connecticut Lakes of northern New Hampshire about how to balance income from logging, which pays you to cut down trees, vs. income from carbon capture programs,...
by David Brooks | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog, Newsletter
For 35 years the satirical Ig Nobel awards have been a geeks’ delight in the Cambridge, Mass. No longer. This year’s event is moving to Zurich, Switzerland, due to fear of rampant human rights abuse by ICE and its supporters. “During the past year, it has...