by David Brooks | Oct 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Put your hand up, everybody whose college dorm room had a poster of a Mandelbrot set on the wall, preferably in vivid psychedelic colors. And how about those who remember your mind being blown by James Gleick’s book “Chaos”? Lots of you, I see. No surprise among...
by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
At this time of year we fixate on the effect of weather patterns, especially warmer autumns like the record-breaking October that we’re having, on leaf-peeping. Now a fascinating study has looked at the effect of warmer autumns on when leaves appear in the...
by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I moderated my first online Science Cafe NH in a long time last night. The online version of this long-running program has been handled by folks on the team that ran the Nashua portion of the program when we were still in three-dimensional space, and they’ve got...
by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Just a reminder that Sunday is the day that we’ll have to start dialing “603” in front of most local calls. If you haven’t added it to numbers in your Contact list, you’ll start getting annoying messages that the call can’t go...
by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The abrupt decision by New Hampshire to stop certifying organic livestock farms will not have a big effect on the state’s agriculture, but it shows that maintaining food production is a complicated process. “It is both a funding problem and a labor problem,”...
by David Brooks | Oct 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The starting gun has been fired on the most interesting energy change New Hampshire has seen in decades and Warner, the Concord area’s lone participant, is heading out of the blocks. “We’re kind of at the beginning of it all,” said Select Board Chair Clyde Carson, the...
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