A suggestion that goes slightly overboard
My article about the new historical marker in New Hampshire honoring the creation of BASIC made it to the front page of Slashdot. Among the comments is the one above, which probably goes a bit too far! In case the JPG is hard to read, it says: After the Old Man of the...
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Fast-charging stations coming to NH interstates
The state’s three biggest electric utilities are proposing to create a dozen fast-charging stations for electric vehicles along interstates in New Hampshire, using money from the Volkswagen emissions-rigging settlement to create the state’s first such network open to...
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Paper is good (ballot-booth edition)
New Hampshire requires voters to fill in little circles on the ballot when voting for public office, sort of like answering questions on the SAT. (Assuming they still do that - it's been a loooooong while since I took the SAT.) Then you run the paper ballot through a...
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Wikipedia popularity map for NH, but who is Triple-H?
In an entertaining but essentially meaningless bit of data mapping, a couple of folks at The Pudding, an online publication that looks at culture via visual data, assembled a map showing the "most Wikipedia-ed" person throughout the U.S. (here's the map) In New...
read moreWe’re not alone in fretting about a ‘birth dearth’
New Hampshire has lot fretted about a shortage of births producing a "silver tsunami" of old folks that will cripple the economy, shutter our colleges and produce an over-supply of Denny's restaurants. Most of us know that is true throughout New England and other...
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Finally, a historical marker that talks about something important
It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State: The latest New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker, celebrating the creation of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth in 1964, has officially been installed. Everybody who has...
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Forget political history; we want to know about the electric panel
People think of the New Hampshire State House as a bastion of democracy and a glorious symbol of our granite-willed independence, but here’s another way to think of it: A really old office building with some really weird wiring. The building celebrated its 200th...
read moreAcoustics is topic of new UNH center
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire has launched a new center focused on the science of sound. The Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE) will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research,...
read moreNew Hampshire patents
The Concord Monitor runs a list of patents that have been issued recently to companies or individuals in New Hampshire. Check it out.
read moreA quiet week in Lake Geekbedone, my home site
I'm out of town most of this week, so I won't be putting much on the blog and newsletter - so you can squander more of your time with other online frivolity! But just in case you're bored, here's a tweaked version of a column I wrote last October, altered to fit...
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Science Cafe NHAbout 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 WKXL radio in Concord.
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.