by David Brooks | Jun 5, 2018 | Newsletter
Ticks are everywhere this year, judging from my experience and the experience of everybody I’ve talked to in central and southern New Hampshire – but what’s it like closer to the Notches and the North Country? “We do know that ticks are moving, but we don’t know how...
by David Brooks | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The city of Concord is now part of a long-running push by a Keene group to bring back the American elm tree from destruction, having planted 11 disease-resistant Liberty elms around the city. The trees, each weighing about 1,200 pounds and standing 20 feet tall, were...
by David Brooks | May 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH has been involved in space science for 64 years, so they put together a cool graphic about it, with bragging numbers like 36 current satellites have UNH instruments on board, and the fact that they manage the magnetometer on Voyager I, which is now 13 billion...
by David Brooks | May 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Foresters and biologists use the innocuous word “mast” to describe the production of wild nuts and berries in woods and fields. The amount of mast fluctuates each year and has wide-ranging effects: In a good mast year there’s lots of natural food to...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Among the blizzard of bills that either were or weren’t signed into law this year, I missed HB1335, which says: I. No state agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab has a...
by David Brooks | May 30, 2018 | Newsletter
The obvious response to rising sea levels is to build higher sea walls. Damn the expense and the fact that they cause problems elsewhere, we need to protect my shoreline property! So one possibility to protect Boston’s waterfront is to build big barriers out in...
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