The ‘baby bust’ is going to be a disaster. It’s our only hope
The most hopeful change in human society that has occurred during my lifetime – a change that must continue if our grandchildren have any hope of a decent life – is really bad. It’s bad economically, bad socially, even bad culturally. But if you love your kids like I...
You know what NH Speedway needs to fill its NASCAR gap? Electric car racing!
NASCAR fans in New Hampshire are lamenting the fact that NH International Speedway has dropped one of two races that it hosts each year – as the Monitor’s Ray Duckler noted in an article about last weekend’s race at Loudon, titled “Sound...
They’re going to test a moth that eats an invasive weed I hate, hate, hate
Pardon a personal rant, but for more than a decade my family has been fighting an invasive weed known as black swallowwort. It’s a vine that grows up from the ground and tangles everything; when we bought our property it had filled one field to the point that it...
NH bitcoin machines to shut July 31 (for a bit) because of a complex dispute over forking
As I’ve noted several times, New Hampshire is one of the hotbeds of retail bitcoin usage thanks largely to the ultra-libertarian Free Staters. I believe we have more public bitcoin vending machines per capita than any state. For a short period s of July 31,...N.H. infected with way more malware than any other state, claims anti-malware company
Companies that make software to fight malware issue lots of alarming press releases about malware and I take them with a grain of self-serving salt. But here’s one that tweaked my Granite State interest: Computer users in New Hampshire were three times as likely...
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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.