I got to write a story with “death ray” in the lede! (It’s about a local company that makes laser safety equipment)
If you want to get overly dramatic about it, you could say that Kentek, a company that has been in Pittsfield for 34 years, is in the business of protecting us from death rays. “A laser basically evaporates materials, melts them. That’s how it drills,” explained Tom...Maybe it’s a digital-info world – but at the library it’s still very analog
I wrote a story about the Concord city library adding a second digital service – Hoopla Digital to supplement the statewide New Hampshire Downloadable Books service operated by the firm OverDrive – and it was interesting to report, but to me the biggest...
My mother’s dad grew table grapes in California in the 1940s; maybe I can grow them in NH in the 2010s
From UNH News Service: University of New Hampshire researchers have found certain varieties of seedless table grapes grow better in New Hampshire’s colder climate than others. The research project, funded by the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, aims to...Bad year for piping plovers on N.H. beaches
From New Hampshire Fish and Game: It was a difficult summer for the state-endangered and federally threatened piping plovers on Hampton and Seabrook beaches this year. This summer, three pairs nested on Hampton Beach with two chicks fledged (25+ days old), while on...No N.H. entrants in annual design-a-better-wood-stove competition
There’s a Massachusetts firm among the 14 wannabe finalists for the 2018 Wood Stove Design Challenge, but nobody from New Hampshire made the list. The competition is a sort of mini X-Prize-ish attempt to push innovation in an area that doesn’t get a lot of...
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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.