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...
by David Brooks | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Granite Staters sometimes quip that New Hampshire is the center of the universe, but is it also the center of the leafhopper universe? Three decades of research by scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the...
by David Brooks | Jun 22, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Like many newspapers, the Monitor has a “localizer” story today reflecting on the Supreme Court decision that will allow sales taxes collected from out-of-state online purchases. This is a big deal in New Hampshire which has no sales tax – we were...
by David Brooks | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The Food and Drug Administration is backing down on the much-ridiculed requirement that labels on maple syrup and honey list them as having “added sugar”. The issue produced a lot of predictable “how stupid can they be????” comments and...
by David Brooks | Jun 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Service: Scientists have been able to prove the existence of small black holes and those that are super-massive but the existence of an elusive type of black hole, known as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is hotly debated. New research coming out...
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