by David Brooks | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
For most of January, New England has been reliving a piece of our past. Unfortunately, it’s a smoggy, polluting piece. During the recent cold snap, more than a tenth of the electricity generated in New England has been produced by power plants that are burning oil,...
by David Brooks | Jan 26, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
This news item from Dartmouth College introduced me to a geological event I’d never heard of: The Great Unconformity, a “missing billion years” of geological history. New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion...
by David Brooks | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Rebecca Irelan, UNH EOS: A new study from UNH reveals a key piece of evidence that’s eluded scientists since the days of Ben Franklin’s kite experiment: how lightning actually begins within a storm cloud. Chris Sterpka, a UNH Ph.D. student studying lightning...
by David Brooks | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
A version of this story ran in 2018. It returns to the Monitor’s online most-read list during every cold snap, so what the heck, here’s an updated version. There’s an option for homeowners who run out of heating oil and can’t wait for a refill, or who can’t...
by David Brooks | Jan 25, 2022 | Newsletter
As I have indicated before, I am very worried about efforts to dismantle American voting being pushed by the extremists who have taken over the Republican Party in New Hampshire and most of the nation. There’s a cacophony of laws being proposed and passed that...
by David Brooks | Jan 24, 2022 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 16 to Jan. 23. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Parameter Optimization, Event Prediction Based on Cell Heuristics Parallel Wireless, Nashua,...
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