by David Brooks | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Audubon has a long post responding to some people who are alarmed that they’ve seen very few birds at their feeders this year, especially this fall. The post is here. tl’dr – it’s not avian flu, it’s this year’s...
by David Brooks | Nov 19, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
NH Public Radio’s Todd Bookman has a long, detailed piece out today (here it is) detailing the complicated (and maybe eyebrow-raising) financial benefits that inventor Dean Kamen’s private firms get from the federally funded non-profit ARMI: The federal...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: The city council supported the plan, 6-4, voting “to institute a measure that would capture more of the power McNeil Generating Station cannot use currently, through waste heat, steam and an electric boiler, and pipe it underground to large entities like...
by David Brooks | Nov 17, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire Bulletin looks at yet another species that is moving north as weather warms: Fiddler crabs. Johnson uses the term “climate migrants” when referring to species like fiddler crabs, blue crabs, and black sea bass, all creatures that have seen expanded...
by David Brooks | Nov 14, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
The Valley News has a story about small efforts to get farmers and others to look at hickory trees, especialy the Yellowbud variety, as a potential nut crop as well as a tree that’s resilient in the face of the climate emergency. (The full story is here) Taking...
by David Brooks | Nov 13, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Nov. 12. *** Hockey Stick With Variable Geometry Shaft and Paddle BAUER...