by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
If you were a little surprised that 2018’s first baby born in one of the whitest states in the nation – Gifty Nnamerenwa, who arrived in Nashua about 90 minutes after midnight on Monday – wasn’t white, and neither was the first 2018 baby born in Concord, perhaps it’s...
by David Brooks | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Wildlife biologists need help from citizen science volunteers to conduct surveys for Eastern cottontail rabbits in southern New Hampshire. On February 3, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Hollis, UNH Cooperative Extension and New Hampshire Fish and Game will train...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Newsletter
I wrote this in 2011, but recycling is good for the environment, right? Forget watching paint dry or grass grow – last week I watched snow melt. Boy, there’s no end to the excitement when you’re researching a science column. To be honest, I didn’t watch the whole...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Newsletter
Science Cafe NH in Concord returns after our December hiatus: Tuesday from 6 to 8-ish at The Draft Sports Bar. The topic of the conversation is parenting: How do we know what works and what doesn’t work when raising kids? Is it science or just...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Photovoltaic electricity is growing fast in New Hampshire, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration: We went from an estimated annual production of 45,000 megawatt-hours during the first three quarters of 2016 to 78,000 Mwh in the same period of...
by David Brooks | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I decided I don’t get enough email from readers calling me an idiot, so I wrote this for today’s Concord Monitor: The holidays are over and the weather has been weird, which makes people grumpy. So let’s be grumpy, too. Specifically, let’s be grumpy about...