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It’s hard to remember now, but in the Good Old Days – the decade through my teenage years, which is everybody’s definition of Good Old Days – the typewriter was just about the most interesting piece of technology in people’s homes.Whether manual or...

By DAVID BROOKS

When it comes to science, there’s something to be said for longevity. Consider the Lamprey River.The Lamprey, which flows 212 miles from Northwood through Durham to Newmarket, isn’t exactly a huge river but it is the largest contributor of fresh water...

By DAVID BROOKS

When Ed Stein passed away in July after a long and happy life that was colored but not constrained by mild autism, his sister Kathy wanted to do something that would memorialize him.“He was the kind of guy where he would walk into a room and it would...

DAVID BROOKS

It might have the world’s worst weather but Mount Washington now has some of the best observed, with five new remote weather monitoring stations going online along the Cog Railway and many more to come.The new stations on the mountain’s west side that...

By DAVID BROOKS

New Hampshire regulators have left in place the state’s net metering program, which pays owners of solar panels when they send power to the grid, but a looming expiration date could make financing more difficult.The order from the Public Utilities...

By DAVID BROOKS

The effect of a very dry autumn is beginning to show up in the region, notably with brush fires in Massachusetts and parts of southern New England, and while New Hampshire has been spared so far, little precipitation is on the horizon with...

By DAVID BROOKS

Last week I wrote about interesting stuff that UNH is doing in space, but there’s something interesting on the ground in Durham, as well. A big something. Big and cold.Admittedly, it doesn’t sound all that interesting. It’s just a giant water storage...

By DAVID BROOKS

A couple of recent events have created a really horrifying thought for me: “Oh my gosh, what if the cranks were right and I was wrong?!?”In this case the cranks – my term, not theirs – are the people who say fluoride shouldn’t be added to public...

By DAVID BROOKS

Any big city exhibits aspects of William Gibson’s famous line that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed – but few take it as far as Beijing.(Yes, folks, this is an example of that fine journalistic tradition: the “What I did on...

By GEOFF FORESTER and ARIANNA MacNEILL

For Meg Roby, summer must include one key element.“I love bubbles,” the Concord children’s library technician said, “and we can’t have a summer program without bubbles.”Recently, around 25 kids showed up at the library’s main branch on Green Street to...

By DAVID BROOKS

Moving results from the research world into the real world can be a real challenge but I think the challenge is hardest when the research concerns people’s health.It’s one thing to show that a medicine or treatment or practice helps patients in a lab...

By DAVID BROOKS

Today’s insight into the scientific method is brought to you via a nondescript ocean dweller with the unlyrical name of lumpfish.The lumpfish, as I learned from a UNH press release, was the subject of recent research by Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild, a...