by David Brooks | Mar 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A more contagious COVID-19 variant is on the rise in New England, but experts still don’t know whether that’s bad news. When scientists talked about the Omicron variant this winter, they were most likely referring to the subvariant called BA.1, which was responsible...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
New England’s last coal-fired power plant, Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., has won yet another year of guaranteed funding ($750K per month, roughly) under the annual forward capacity market, but there are signs that cheap power from renewables might be started...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m always slightly dubious of reports about the economic and job-creation effect of research grants in any geographic area because it depends on a lot of assumptions. With that in mind … The National Institutes of Health says New Hampshire received $115...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
News subtitle A long-standing theorem in the study of American politics holds that candidates will run to the middle in an attempt to win support from the average voter. But a mathematical model developed by a team in Associate Professor of Mathematics Feng Fu’s...
by David Brooks | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
It takes a lot of incentive to get people to go out into the woods and shift 15,000 kilograms (16.5 tons) of snow around by hand. Fortunately, scientific curiosity is a great incentive. Earlier this month, six people spent three days at Hubbard Brook Experimental...
by David Brooks | Mar 21, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
My native thought was that the seafood industry would have less COVID-19 than most of us because they’re fishing, well separated and in the open air. But much of the industry involves processing fish indoors so that you can I can get those convenient fillets,...
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