by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Many Boston-area TV stations are shifting their spot on the airwaves this week, requiring people who use over-the-air antennas to rescan their television sets to find them again. WMUR-TV in Manchester is not among the stations that will be changing this week....
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
How do you know which online reviews are real, honest opinions, and which ones are just propaganda or hidden advertising? A Dartmouth researcher found that one cue people use, probably unconsciously, is whether the review was written on a smartphone, or typed at a...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
There’s no New Hampshire angle to this one, except for throwing cold water on all the hard science fiction fans in the state who dream of terraforming Mars. But I’m going to point to this piece on Gizmodo: “Humans will never colonize Mars”...
by David Brooks | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
(I profiled this lab when it opened in 2015 in this article.) From UNH News Service: Pathologists with the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire have identified the first reported virus in chimney swifts, an adenovirus...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Biochar, which is sort of like charcoal,- is one of those products that seems too good to be true. Basically you burn low-grade wood in an enclosed space (pyrolysis) to create a substance that is praised as a soil amendment and eyed as a way to take carbon from the...
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
How do you know whether a tree is rotten inside and might fall on your building? The same way you know whether humans are rotten inside: do an ultrasound. For more details, check my story in today’s Monitor.
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