by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The region’s biggest greenhouse grower of salad greens, Lef Farms of Loudon, has been purchased by a national firm which plans to enlarge it. New York-based Brightfarms purchased Lef (pronounced “leaf”) this summer for an undisclosed amount. The company says it plans...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
I have written several times over the years about the fascinating pattern known as Benford’s Law, which describes the weird pattern in the distribution of the first digit of numbers found in certain large datasets. It was famously noticed because the pages of...
by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Mount Washington Observatory has a Science Cafe-like series called Science in the Mountains which has, like SCNH, gone online during the pandemic. The next one seems particularly interesting: “Charting the Last Great Global Warming: Ice Age Lessons for a...
by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
You will be glad to hear that I have figured out a sure-fire retirement scheme once I’m no longer getting the huge paychecks handed out to newspaper reporters: Breeding praying mantises! No, wait, hear me out. Aside from being the coolest insect (dragonfly aficionados...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded and, once again, nobody from New Hampshire got the most coveted prize in academia. GraniteGeek has long been a big Ig Nobel fan. I have attended more than a dozen of the goofy events at Ha-vahhd, and I brought the founder and...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. Department of Energy has given a $1.2 million, three-year grant to Dartmouth engineering professor Daniel Olson, who is investigating the use of biomass to produce next-generation fuels and chemicals. The goal is to use C. thermocellum, a type of bacteria...