by David Brooks | Mar 16, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a Q&A with a Dartmouth math professor who has joined the push to download and preserve data related to climate science, fearing that the current administration will delete it. The college is providing server space, as is UNH and many other...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
I am writing a column about arsenic naturally occurring in new Hampshire groundwater, so I thought I’d rerun this 2012 column I wrote for the Telegraph: You think you know New Hampshire? Yeah, me too. So why don’t we know about the Massabesic Gneiss Complex?...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Newsletter
Why would you care about what happens to pieces of wood shoved into forest floors? Because … Science! So says the USDA Northern Forest Research Station: Soil organic matter is key to maintaining site productivity because of its role in water availability,...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Newsletter
This is my Concord Monitor column this week: If you’re reading a column with “geek” in the title, you probably have fond and/or painful memories of being in a science fair. You know the routine: Find a project, run it for weeks or months, record data (maybe fudging it...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
There are plenty of places that do take-offs on the college basketball playoffs called March Madness (I like the March Mammal Madness bracket) so here’s one that you can participate in: CoCoRaHS March Madness. The Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow Network...
by David Brooks | Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the great pleasures of being a reporter is stumbling onto stuff you didn’t know – like the way New Hampshire issues about 140 permits a year for people to do gold prospecting in our rivers and streams. There’s gold in them thar White...
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