UNH InterOperability Lab tackles power over Ethernet
The UNH InterOperability Lab is one of the state’s tech-y (cliche alert!) hidden gems. It’s got a national, even international, reputation for testing equipment and helping develop standards, but aside from the occasional brilliantly written, insightful...
Can quinoa be turned into a New Hampshire crop?
By UNH News Service: Researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have launched a research project that aims to “re-domesticate” the superfood quinoa in Northern New England, giving the region’s farmers new...The “I’m a Teapot” error code – the best thing in all of computing – is endangered
The best thing in all of computing might be the 418 status code, an offshoot of a longrunning joke called the Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol (wikipedia, of course, can explain that) which plays off the kids song I’m A Little Teapot. It states: Any attempt...
Berklee professor makes audio map of the White Mountains
I’ve done stories about folks making geo-tagged maps with photos and data – here’s a guy making one with sounds: For three weeks, the Berklee College of Music professor will traverse the national forest, ferreting out the best sounds with which to...
Can math solve gerrymandering? If people allow it, yeah.
Back in January I wrote about a Tufts math professor’s push to use mathematics to more objectively define voting districts and thus push back against gerrymandering. It was a story about House Bill 320 would would have established a commission to give the...
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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.