by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
A study just released by the U.S. Geological Society is casting doubt on the idea that toxins released by cyanobacteria blooms cause or contribute to neurological disorders such as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease – an idea that has been put forward in recent...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
When a damaging windstorm raced through New Hampshire right before Halloween, lots of information was quickly available about what had happened to our electricity supply. There were live reports of a number of outages, expected times for reconnections, even some...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
TechOut, the annual competition among startups put on by the New Hampshire High Tech Council, has gotten much bigger: This year it awarded $300,000 rather than $100,000 to the two firms chosen from six finalists. The winner this year is Kantum Diagnostics of Concord,...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe Concord on Tuesday discussed the power grid, and how its being forced to change in the face of renewable energy, distributed energy, microgrids, storage and other technologies, all fueled by our growing worries about climate change. It was a very good...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From UNH News Services: The University of New Hampshire has launched the Sustainability Indicator Management and Analysis Platform (SIMAP), a tool that offers campuses an online platform for calculating, reporting, and tracking their carbon and nitrogen footprints....
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Among the various videos that have caught the public attention in the past week is a really disturbing one showing a gigantic coconut crab – the world’s largest land invertebrate – eat attack a sleeping seagull-ish sea bird called a booby and eat it...