by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | Gov-Local, None
If we have to suffer through a crummy winter, it might as well be a record crummy winter – and it was. The National Weather Service says that Concord has its warmest ever “meteorological winter,” the period from December through February, since records were first kept...
by David Brooks | Mar 1, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
What if you could give your next child fluorescent hair? Using the topic of this month’s Science Cafe Concord, you may be able to, in the not-very-distant future. “It can lead to designer babies – a term that everybody has used, but the word ‘designer’ doesn’t always...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2016 | Natural Sciences, Science-Technology
Massachusetts, as you may have heard, is freaking out over plans to put 150 rattlesnakes on an island in the middle of the state’s biggest reservoir, yet here in New Hampshire we already have a Rattlesnake Island, on Lake Winnipesaukee. Plus we have Rattlesnake Hill...
by David Brooks | Feb 22, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The changing climate is going to affect a lot of things around us in the coming years, but perhaps nothing more than the most overlooked (quite literally) item in local government’s quiver of tools, the lowly road culvert. “Recent trends show that we are getting...
by David Brooks | Feb 16, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
The controversy that erupted in September over the West Lebanon public library’s participation in a privacy network known as Tor has led to a proposed state law to make it clear libraries are free to “allow the installation and use of cryptographic privacy platforms”...