by David Brooks | Jul 8, 2018 | Newsletter
Field researchers like it when they can gather data by looking at satellite photos instead of schlupping around all over the place collecting samples. This can happen, however, only if they’ve first done a lot of schlupping to determine what’s on the...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE JULY 8: Ethan DeWitt has a followup analysis which says that in theory this leaves NH open to any and all autonomous car testing, since we have no laws addressing them at all. Read it here. A fatal crash involving a self-driving car in Arizona was one of the...
by David Brooks | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I have a story in the Monitor today about a program at a Rockywold-Deephaven Camps in Holderness that uses ice blocks, cut from Squam Lake in January, to keep food cold in “ice boxes”. You should check it out because it’s got great photos of hauling...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of my favorite stories of recent weeks involved an electrician who wanted to goof off but whose whereabouts were monitored by management via his GPS. He couldn’t turn it off because they’d know, so instead he stuck inside one of those shiny foil potato...
by David Brooks | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
We all fixate on record high temperatures for a given location and time, and understandably so, but just as significant, certainly in terms of human health and also in terms of reflecting the climate’s changes, is highest low temperature for a given period. A...
by David Brooks | Jul 3, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In this era of concern about invasive species, people spend a lot of time and effort warning against moving plants and animals around too much. Except for trout. We move them around like crazy. Last week the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department completed aerial...