Yesterday I woke up at 3 a.m. with a terrifying thought: What if COVID-19 is a sign that H.G. Wells got it backwards?What if it’s not true that...
If you’ve had a PCR test for COVID-19 you know that collecting the tissue sample takes a few minutes and involves a minor snootful of irritation...
That this column is named “Granite Geek’ might give you a clue about my certain bias when solving complicated problems, such as how best to keep...
A long-running attempt to resurrect the American chestnut tree from the blight that virtually exterminated it – an attempt that can be seen in a...
If there’s one thing we all could use right now it’s a dose of therapy, so let’s embrace the idea that music can soothe the savage breast.But let’s...
With recent pressure and planning to open public schools to in-person learning by the end of summer, the safety of children amid the threat of the...
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The Concord Monitor is keeping track of four measurements as indicators of how the COVID-19 pandemic is progressing. This is our fifth weekly...