by David Brooks | May 21, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
(Here is my column in this week’s Monitor. Space constraints in print meant I didn’t include the biggest-context part of the conversation: Toderian pointed out that climate change is making pandemics more likely, so changing cities to limit future climate...
by David Brooks | May 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
One sunny afternoon earlier this month, reports ISO-New England, the six-state region had roughly 3,200 MW of “behind the meter” solar – the rooftop stuff, as compared to stand-alone solar farms that feed straight to the grid. This was a record, says...
by David Brooks | May 20, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is one of the first academic medical centers for a new FDA-approved national Phase 3 study of a drug with the potential to treat patients in the hospital with COVID-19 pneumonia. Lenzilumab is a monoclonal antibody that could prevent the severity...
by David Brooks | May 16, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers know that I love New Hampshire’s historical highway plaques, especially the one that honors the creation of BASIC and the super-especially the one that honors the nation’s first “alien abduction.” I thought nobody could touch us...
by David Brooks | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you have bats in your barn or other outbuildings around your home, New Hampshire wildlife biologists would love to hear from you! Citizen science volunteers are needed more than ever this summer to conduct bat counts around their property. On Thursday, June 4, from...
by David Brooks | May 15, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
If you missed the first virtual Science Cafe New Hampshire, it went really well. At least 500 people watched it. Bobbie Bagley, Director of the Division of Public Health for Nashua, Nashua city epidemiologist Angela Consentino and Jenn Alford-Teaster, senior research...
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