by David Brooks | Oct 13, 2025 | Blog, Newsletter
UNH researchers are examining the long-term ecological effects of the chestnut blight, which in the course of a couple decades a century ago wiped out one of the dominant tree species on the entire Eastern Seaboard, to see if it can help them predict what will happen...
by David Brooks | Mar 15, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it, a famous person once quipped, but that’s not entirely true: We measure the weather like crazy, and measurement is the first step to control. Every morning, for example, I check a rain gauge next...
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 2, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
Vermont does some pretty weird stuff, as we all know, but recently it did something that was both weird and geeky: Studying whether to run its government using the technology behind bitcoin. The answer was “no,” but not because it was a silly question. National...
by David Brooks | Jan 20, 2016 | None, Science-Technology
If you missed the inaugural Science Cafe Concord last week, take heart: ConcordTV will air a distilled version of the two-hour discussion on its public channel, Comcast Channel 22. The 28-minute broadcast version of the event will air Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30...