How trees can best cut carbon: Don’t just replace oil, replace steel & concrete
Science Cafe NH in Concord last night had a great discussion about the environmental aspects of using wood to create heat and electricity (sometimes bad, sometimes good – like so much in life). The video will be posted in a week or two, after editing is done, by...NH Electric Coop offers cheaper rate to charge your car, as long as you do it at night
Electric vehicle owners in areas served by New Hampshire Electric Cooperative will be able to get cheap power for recharging their cars, as long as they do it at night or on weekends. NHEC announced Friday that it would become the state’s first utility to offer...Recent patents in New Hampshire
By Targeted News Service Patents issued to companies and individuals in New Hampshire recently include: AgaMatrix Assigned Patent for Electrochemical Analyte Detection Apparatus AgaMatrix, Salem, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 9,939,440, initially...
Who would attack a century-old tree?
It appears that somebody has been attacking trees around the New Hampshire State House, including the huge Norway maple next to the Soldiers Memorial Arch along Main Street that is the biggest of its species in the state, by chopping or cutting the bark near the base....
A new virus is found in lynx – passed on by ticks, of course
From UNH News Service: Scientists with the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire have discovered a previously undiagnosed parasite and virus in the Canada Lynx. The parasite, transmitted by ticks, is a known to infect...
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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.