by David Brooks | May 21, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Last month I wrote about research indicating we have underestimated the effect on creating cyanobacteria blooms made by nutrients, especially phosphorus, lurking in mud at the bottom of lakes. (Here it is, if you’ve forgotten.) Well, the state is trying to do...
by David Brooks | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers know that the seal/flag of the city of Manchester includes a centrifugal governor, one of the inventions that made the Industrial Revolution possible. It’s the device with weighted arms hinged to a vertical spindle that rise or fall as the...
by David Brooks | May 20, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Happy birthday to me: The Granite Geek blog launched 15 years ago. I’m not sure exactly when it started, since almost everything before 2015 has disappeared in a haze of changing software/servers/owners. But we’ll pretend it’s this week. That’s...
by David Brooks | May 19, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Last year, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument became the east’s first “Dark Sky Sanctuary” (as I noted at the time). Now the nearby-ish 100-Mile Wilderness, infamous to Appalachian Trail through-hikers, has received a similar designation...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
As New Hampshire teeters on the edge of another drought (most of the state is “abnormally dry” right now), the above graphic shows what led us here: 2020 was really dry. This is chart of the flow rate of Smith River in Bristol over the course of spring and...
by David Brooks | May 18, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The online forum Reddit is infamous for some foul-minded communities, but earlier this month somebody posted a photo to its New Hampshire section that shook even hardened online veterans to the core. What was this appalling sight? It was a toilet seat in an outhouse;...