Very first New Englanders might have spotted a woolly mammoth or two
In fossil-deprived Northern New England, where geology melted dinosaur remains and glaciers ground up everything else, woolly mammoths are special. (Addendum: They’re so special that a project at Harvard called Revive & Restore is trying to use genetics to...Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Fusion power is coming!
The Boston Globe has an update on Commonwealth Fusion Systems, an MIT spinoff that is working on a fusion reactor. It’s going to build a manufacturing facility in Devens, Mass. and says it has “developed highly sophisticated electromagnets that can confine...
It’s windier than normal … or is it? (redux)
It’s very windy today in New Hampshire – lots of power lines down but not the ones to my house, thankfully. I’ve posted a couple items about wind speeds at Concord Municipal Airport, the National Weather Service’s official measuring spot, in...Building a better ‘canary trap’
Most of us have heard of computer network “honey traps” to lure in bad guys, but “canary traps” are new to me: “The canary trap technique in espionage spreads multiple versions of false documents to conceal a secret.” At Dartmouth,...Grow kelp and sink it. Can that help the climate?
“Maine Startup Aims To Pull Carbon Out Of The Atmosphere By Growing — And Then Sinking — Kelp Farms” I think that headline says it all – lots of details in the story from WBUR right here, notably the fact that the idea is to grow kelp on buoys out in...
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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.