by David Brooks | Sep 15, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The Mount Washington Observatory has a Science Cafe-like series called Science in the Mountains which has, like SCNH, gone online during the pandemic. The next one seems particularly interesting: “Charting the Last Great Global Warming: Ice Age Lessons for a...
by David Brooks | Sep 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
You will be glad to hear that I have figured out a sure-fire retirement scheme once I’m no longer getting the huge paychecks handed out to newspaper reporters: Breeding praying mantises! No, wait, hear me out. Aside from being the coolest insect (dragonfly aficionados...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The 2021 Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded and, once again, nobody from New Hampshire got the most coveted prize in academia. GraniteGeek has long been a big Ig Nobel fan. I have attended more than a dozen of the goofy events at Ha-vahhd, and I brought the founder and...
by David Brooks | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. Department of Energy has given a $1.2 million, three-year grant to Dartmouth engineering professor Daniel Olson, who is investigating the use of biomass to produce next-generation fuels and chemicals. The goal is to use C. thermocellum, a type of bacteria...
by David Brooks | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 6 to Sept. 12. *** Deka Products Assigned Patent for System for Remote Patient Care Deka Products, Manchester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,109,934, initially...
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