by David Brooks | Jul 9, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
As the anniversary of the moon landing approaches, I promise not to bore you with stories of watching it on a black-and-white TV and dreaming about cool space stuff yet to come. Instead, I promise to excite you with a special Science Cafe in which you – yes, you! –...
by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It appears that a nearby lightning strike fried the electronics on the automated weather station at Concord airport last week, as I reported in the Monitor. It’s waiting for specialty parts and won’t be back up until later this week. In the meantime,...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The chemicals known collectively as PFAS – “forever chemicals” in some nomenclature because they don’t really break down in the environment – are causing lots of headaches because they’re showing up in groundwater. Turns out,...
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Using “waste heat” from a power plant to do useful stuff sounds really straightforward to somebody like me, who has never had to do it. Then I read this long article in Biomass Magazine about the Burgess Biopower Plant in Berlin, which has a lot of...
by David Brooks | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Augmented reality, in which technology shows us extra information as we make our way through the world, might be a cool concept but so far it’s kind of a dud, since the biggest impact has been “Pokemon Go.” Is finding invisible monsters in the street with a smartphone...
by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
The Union-Leader, which knows an audience-drawing topic when it sees one, has been going all in with stories about people in the Sunapee area who think they’ve seen a mountain lion. The latest story came Monday and in a backhanded way it acknowledged that all...
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