by David Brooks | Jul 1, 2018 | Newsletter
Four loons on New Hampshire lakes have died this year after swallowing lead fishing tackle and a fifth “faces an uncertain future,” wildlife officials said this past week. New Hampshire Fish and Game say it appears some of the tackle is from current fishing activity,...
by David Brooks | Jun 29, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The death of a New Hampshire man said to be infected with a rare mosquito-borne disease called Jamestown Canyon virus has raised questions as to whether he is its first recorded fatality. Thomas Bengtson’s widow, Susan Bengtson, says two separate tests found evidence...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
(This ran Tuesday; on Thursday I’m hunting down reports of a functioning N.H. solar panel installed in 1973 but so far, this one is still the winner.) In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via...
by David Brooks | Jun 28, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
For decades starting in the Great Depression the use of wood as a heating source in the U.S. declined as it was replaced by coal, oil and electricity. But in the first years of this century wood made a little comeback, fueled (ha!) in part by wood pellet technology,...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2018 | Newsletter
Mixing art and science always sounds like a great idea but the results tend to be much more arty than sciencey – a few molecular symbols added to a painting or a secondary movie character who talks vaguely about quantum mechanics. At Dartmouth they’re...
by David Brooks | Jun 26, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Close to 20 years ago (the story is no longer online, so you’ll have to take my word for it) I wrote about Lee Lynd, a professor at Dartmouth who was one of the leading lights in the push to create cellulosic biofuels – that is, biofuel made from the woody...
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