Why do some deciduous trees hold onto their leaves all winter?
As New England prepares to enter its annual leaf-peeping frenzy, a question arises: Why don’t oak trees and beech trees drop their leaves in winter, like all the other deciduous species up here? This is, I recently learned, called “marcescence” and...Come see a movie about the most surprising math in NH history
As promised last week, I’m hosting a talk next Tuesday after a showing of “Counting From Infinity” – here’s my column from the Monitor discussing it: No matter how many bar arguments you’ve been involved in, I’ll bet you’ve never heard...Changes in daylight, changes in temperature – it’s leaf-peeping time!
It’s pretty much de rigueur for New England news outlets to run some sort of “ever wonder why leaves change color each fall?” story each fall. Since this is a blog, I don’t have to write it – I can steal it! There are plenty of places to...Keep in touch
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Electric cars are coming – but where are the electric car chargers?
This week has seen a celebration of the increasing number of cars on our roads that are powered by electrons rather than fossil fuel, but as this numbers grows a question is growing with them: Where are their service stations? The question isn’t as important as it...
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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.