by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A century ago, when the Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count was just getting started, the idea of asking random people to provide field data about wildlife was ridiculous. These days it’s almost overwhelming. Organizations from most state wildlife agencies to the...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Embarrassingly for somebody who’s an avid heat-pump fan, I heat my house with an oil-fired hot-air furnace. I also have a pellet stove in the living room, which I use as supplemental heat in winter evenings, when we tend to huddle in the living room anyway. This...
by David Brooks | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’ve long been fascinated by utility poles: They’re so ubiquitous we don’t notice them and yet they’re amazing: 40-foot-tall straight trees are grown by the millions (there are somewhere around 500,000 utility poles in New Hampshire alone, and...
by David Brooks | Apr 4, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
The Monitor’s Teddy Rosenbluth has a story about the state’s chief medical examiner struggling with performing enough autopsies due to lack of pathologists amid the continuing fentanyl overdose surge. “The office has been trying to hire another...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A sunny, cool weekend in spring is prime solar-power-percentage time: Total usage is relatively low and solar panels are more efficient when it’s cool. Still, it startled me to learn that for several hours of Saturday, April 2, in the six states of New England,...
by David Brooks | Apr 2, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
Portsmouth, by many counts the wealthiest city in the state, will accept various cryptocurrencies for payments of taxes and fees, although it has to be done through PayPal, Seacoast Online reports. Depending on your point of view, they are either leading the way into...
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