Concord’s tech firm on Main Street bought by a much larger (say, 1,000x) firm
One of Main Street’s most unusual tenants, a company that designs and builds high-end computer boards in offices above and below Gibson’s Bookstore, has been purchased by Molex, a much larger electronics firm based in Illinois. Company officials with Molex and...
New Hampshire is more circular than Vermont (this is not a politics joke)
People from other parts of the country, I have found, get Vermont and New Hampshire mixed up because we’re so small. I have several times been asked the equivalent of: “Are you the one that’s big on the top or the one that’s big on the...Will the China shock killing recycling make us rethink all the crap we throw out?
Science Cafe New Hampshire just celebrated its seventh anniversary – seven! holy cow – with its regular monthly conversations in Nashua and Concord. In Concord, where I moderate, the topic was “reinventing recycling” and the conversation was...
Watch the Dyn sign disappear via time lapse
Oracle made a nice time lapse of Manchester Millyard’s rooftop Dyn sign being replaced by a sign for Oracle, which bought Dyne in 2016. The music may not be to everybody’s taste – but then, what music is? You can watch it...
Why are there two obelisks, really close to each other, marking the NH border with Canada?
I was perusing a blog by a group called the Center for Land Use Interpretation that had an incredibly detailed description of the US-Canada border in Maine and New Hampshire (you can read it here), I found the above photo of a small monument at the border crossing in...
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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.