Lyme vaccine for humans is getting closer, just needs $350 million to help it along
If there’s any medical advance that the New Hampshire public would love to see right now, it’s a Lyme vaccine, as bacteria-carrying ticks sweep over the landscape – and not just in New England or just the U.S.. I suspect even anti-vax folks would...Tell me: What geek-related historical marker does New Hampshire need?
New Hampshire has a ton of historical highway markers, those green signs by the roadside that tell you about such-and-thus that happened somewhere close to here at some point. I think they’re great, especially when they talk about alien abduction or goofy...It’s annoying that snow melts and then you have to wait for it to fall again
It’s annoying that snow melts and then you have to wait for it to fall again – so why not try to keep it from melting in the first place? Even if you have to keep it all summer. That’s being done at some European and Canadian ski areas, struggling...
Maine girds for first statewide ranked-choice voting
Maine is set to become the first state to try ranked-choice voting on statewide ballots in a primary next week, although as the Portland Press-Herald notes, there’s a twist (there’s always a twist in this story): Maine voters will finally get their chance...Measuring the ‘energy glow’ of plants from satellites can monitor carbon uptake
From UNH News Service: It doesn’t matter if it’s a forest, a soybean field, or a prairie, all plants take up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis – the process where they use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into food. During this changeover, the plants...
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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.