New Hampshire’s all-time patent leader is no surprise
A commercial real-estate firm called CommercialCafe crunched data on patents from 1975 through 2015 and did some state-by-state comparisons – probably because it knows media outlets (who, me?) can’t resist such lists. You will not be surprised to hear that...
What about that C-130 fuselage that crawled through Concord?
Last week the 55,000-pound, 50-foot-long fuselage of a C-130 cargo plane was hauled through Concord for reasons that are still a little mysterious, and since then I’ve been writing about it almost every day, much to the interest of readers. I’ve been...
Makerspace’s shortage of needle-and-thread skills thwarts mask that allows people to read lips
Makeit Labs, the state’s oldest and biggest makerspace (pre-COVID anyway – who knows what size anything is, these days?) has designed and made a pandemic-suitable face mask with a transparent section so that deaf people can still read your lips. The story...Ranked-choice voting worked for NH Democrats
New Hampshire’s Democrats had a lousy election this year at the state level – every branch of state government is now controlled by Republicans, although the Democrats did hold onto all the federal seats. To compensate, they had some fun when they met to...Maine proposes a floating wind farm
A dozen wind turbines floating 20 miles off the coast of Maine are being proposed by that state, which is looking to have a stake in what is going to be a huge offshore wind industry. “The primary purpose of the project would be research, with a goal of working...
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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.