by David Brooks | Jan 10, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The record-breaking deep freeze we went through over the past couple of weeks has thrown fuel on the fire (Ed. – inappropriate metaphor) for the debate over whether New England needs to build more pipelines to bring natural gas here. Basically, one of the...
by David Brooks | Jan 10, 2018 | Newsletter
Science is at its best when researchers poke around in interesting places just because they’re interesting, with no idea of what they’re going to find. Every now and then they produce one of those surprises, like penicillin or microwave ovens, that make the scientific...
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...
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