Simple blood test could spot risk of sepsis, which kills hundreds of thousands of Americans
From Dartmouth-Hitchcock: Sepsis kills a quarter of a million Americans each year – as many as stroke and Alzheimer’s combined – but very little has changed in the treatment of this age-old scourge. Now an international group of researchers including...
This 3,000-year-old technology is still used at industrial scale
The Archimedes Screw is one of the basic simple machines of proto-technology and except for the inclined plane (which to my mind is too simple to be considered a machine, no matter what they say!) is probably the one still used the most at industrial scale. It’s...
You can’t make decisions without data: The Air Pollution Edition
When you operate devices to measure pollution all over New Hampshire, you find a lot of bad news, like ozone pollution from cars in summer and smoke from woodstoves in winter. But sometimes you find good news, too. “Carbon monoxide used to be an issue in urban areas –...They no longer need a bigger boat
From UNH News Service: A new ocean-going research vessel is on the horizon for scientists at the University of New Hampshire that will expand their capability to track ocean currents, conduct seafloor studies, and further research on food web dynamics and fish...Vermont utility says ‘virtual power plant’ saved it $500K in the heat wave
Green Mount Power, the statewide utility in Vermont, is ahead of the curve on many Grid 2.0 technologies – partly because it’s so small (just 265,000 residential and business customers) that it can “pivot” quickly, partly because its customers...
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Granite Geek on NH Public RadioAbout Granite Geek
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.