by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
As I was putting together the newsletter, I was asked to help do a breaking story about a road-closing sinkhole. “We don’t have sinkholes!” I replied. “Says who?” asked the newsroom, itching to put ‘sinkhole’ into the web...
by David Brooks | Aug 2, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(There are lots more great photos and a video of the quarry at this article on the Monitor website: https://www.concordmonitor.com/swenson-granite-concord-nh-polycor-quarry-19039156) Almost two years after being purchased by a Quebec firm, Concord’s iconic Swenson...
by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth News Service: From Maine to West Virginia, the Northeast has seen a larger increase in extreme precipitation than anywhere else in the U.S. Prior research found that these heavy rain and snow events, defined as a day with about two inches of...
by David Brooks | Jul 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We’re all familiar with crime-scene forensics, or at least the TV version that is the central plot point for every single cop show, but I must admit the concept of cell-phone forensics is new to me. Fortunately for the hiker who was lost for two days in the snow in...
by David Brooks | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The battle against insects that are attacking New Hampshire’s forests takes place on many fronts, but none is more important than one of the state’s largest gas-fired ovens, a converted shipping container where hundreds of thousands of pieces of camp firewood have...
by David Brooks | Jul 27, 2018 | Newsletter
At the moment, offshore wind farms are the best way to create very large scale renewable energy, both because the technology is pretty robust and because sticking them in the ocean reduces the NIMBY problem that bedevils any large-scale construction. (Onshore wind...
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