by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Regular readers will know that the original science fiction magazine “Amazing Stories” has developed a New Hampshire connection, since a state resident bought the rights to the name and relaunched it, first online and most recently (as I noted here) in...
by David Brooks | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: A pathologist with the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Lab at the University of New Hampshire has identified the first case of Skunk Adenovirus-1 in the United States. The rare respiratory disease was found in tissues of a hedgehog...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As the Concord Monitor reports today, there’s a new push to have an impartial group of people, rather than the political party in power, draw legislative boundaries in New Hampshire. Similar pushes are being made around the country in response to concern about...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
NHPR reporter Sam Evans-Brown does a regular answer-reader-question feature called Ask Sam. This week’s takes on a question I hadn’t really thought about: How tall were the Appalachian Mountains, including the White Mountains, when they were first formed...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
There are enough power plants, power lines and systems in place to provide all the electricity that New England will need this winter, according to the organization that operates the six-state electric grid. ISO New England said Wednesday the grid can meet demand,...
by David Brooks | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Here is my Concord Monitor column this week (Nov. 27): This column will discuss the way a major climate model is overly pessimistic about the coming disappearance of snow and skiing from New Hampshire due to climate change. In other words, it’s a bit of good news...
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