D-H starts clinical trial for possible COVID treatment
From D-H News: A behind-the-scenes group at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) research operations leads and investigators has opened a pair of Phase 3 therapeutic studies of a potential treatment for COVID-19 in a remarkable six days. Such tests can typically take 60 days or...PCBs are still tainting our fish, 45 years after we stopped making them
More than 40 years after the U.S. stopped making the chemicals known as PCBs, the human-made lubricants are still causing problems in New Hampshire including new restrictions on eating fish caught in Squam Lake. The state Department of Environmental Services has...Cars are disappearing from NH highways – trucks, not so much
The COVID-19 shutdown continues to be visible on New Hampshire highways – or, rather, invisible, since the big difference is the cars that aren’t there. That’s cars, not trucks: So far, the number of truck trips on the state’s turnpike system hasn’t declined very...Can I write about something that isn’t related to COVID, like hempcrete?
The weirdest thing has happened to me since the COVID-19 crackdown arrived. I’m actually feeling less stressed.Why? I think it’s because I can only consider one existential crisis at a time and apparently my lizard brain is less afraid of disease-fueled social...We made the same mistakes with Spanish Flu that we made with COVID-19
Back in 1918, the excuse for downplaying a growing public-health crisis was World War I – didn’t want to hurt the war morale, and then we had to turn buildings in downtown Concord into emergency hospitals. I wrote about it for the Monitor. This year, the...
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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 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.