by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire covers about 6 million acres and people were living and traveling all over it for at least 12,000 years before Europeans arrived. But those pre-Contact people didn’t leave much evidence for us to see. The Granite State doesn’t have a stonehenge or huge...
by David Brooks | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Podcasts can be a terrific source of long-form journalism, but if you don’t have a long commute and don’t want to sit in the living room and listen to the radio the way people did in the 1930’s before TV, podcasts can be too long. That might be a...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Some researchers from Dartmouth are among the many scientists participating in a research project that involves a ship getting frozen into the Arctic ice for a year. That’s not an original idea – the great polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen did it 120 years...
by David Brooks | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is one of a number of states working on developing a regional cap-and-trade program – although “cap-and-invest” is the new term – for transportation. It would work sort of like RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that has...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Giant ant mounds are a fact of life in hotter climates but we don’t see them much in New England. So when somebody found a number mounds from a single colony in a forest in the town of Temple, NH, they called in an expert. You can read the resulting story from...
by David Brooks | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
More bike lanes? Horses allowed on I-93? Passenger rail up to Concord? Electric buses? Wider roads? People-carrying drones? Hydrogen-powered tuk-tuks? New Hampshire wants your transportation ideas. New Hampshire Department of Transportation is seeking 5,000 state...
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