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.
by David Brooks | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Solar carports make a ton of sense. There’s nothing more wasteful than a big parking area, so why not cover it with solar panels and at least get a little electricity out of it, while slightly reducing the need for summertime air conditioning in cars parked...
by David Brooks | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As part of my 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 package, I mentioned a disc that Aldrin and Armstrong left on the moon which had microscopic messages from world leaders etched on it. It has a very tenuous New Hampshire connection – it was made by Sprague Electric in...
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