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Offshore wind makes sense along the Eastern seaboard because our continental shelf is pretty flat, so waters are shallow-ish and easy to build in (the continental shelf along the Pacific coast, by contrast, falls off sharply) – plus, it’s close to lots of...Something else to worry about: pathogens that are resistant to antibiotics
When more than 300 health care providers showed up in Concord on Wednesday for a conference about antibiotic resistance, they encountered something unexpected: a pop quiz. Standing at the front podium, Dr. Benjamin Chan, the state epidemiologist, described a classic...
The Karner blue isn’t the only butterfly that thinks Concord Airport is a great place to hang out
If you drive past Concord Municipal Airport one afternoon and see somebody walking next to the runway quickly – but not too quickly – while waving a butterfly net, you probably think you know what they’re doing: Keeping tabs on the Karner blue. Good guess, but you...
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Dave Brooks has written a science/tech column since 1991 - yes, that long - and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on topics of geekish interest in and around New Hampshire, from software to sea level rise, population dynamics to printing (3-D, of course). He moderates monthly Science Cafe NH discussions, beer in hand, and discusses the geek world regularly on New Hampshire Public Radio.
Brooks earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you'll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.