by David Brooks | Jan 12, 2017 | Newsletter
There’s something about patents that gets some people all excited, especially those of us who haven’t been issued one. So I thought it would be fun to poke around patent lists compiled for the Monitor by Targeted News Service to see which towns around...
by David Brooks | Jan 11, 2017 | Blog
I’ve been writing about UNH aquaculture since 1999, including efforts to develop ways to raise large numbers of fish in huge floating tanks (really nets suspended from big floating rings) in the ocean. It’s cool to see that this operation is paying...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Blog
Yesterday’s Science Cafe NH in Nashua discusses cybersecurity, with panelists Tim Winters of UNH-Interoperability Lab and John Murphy of Flowtraq, a network-monitoring firm in Lebanon, N.H. They were both excellent; unfortunately the Nashua SCNH is not filmed,...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
A squirrel caused a short-circuit in a transformer and blew out power to most of Exeter on Jan. 4, reports the Union-Leader. This is no surprise to GraniteGeek readers, who may remember this story from December 2015, following a power outage in Concord caused by a...
by David Brooks | Jan 5, 2017 | Newsletter
For years I’ve wanted to write a story about telephone poles, that ubiquitous presence that is almost entirely overlooked unless we hit them with a car on black ice. I finally did – and the Monitor ran it on Christmas Day. Several people read it, I’m...
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