Patents in N.H. through Sept. 27
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 20 to Sept. 27. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Methods, Systems for Protecting Secured Network Centripetal Networks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...COVID tracker: It’s so tempting to fixate on those outliers
When you’re looking at a whole bunch of numbers, as the Monitor does every week while tracking the status of COVID-19 in the state, it’s tempting to focus on the outliers. An example came last Thursday when the number of new hospitalizations, a data point that was...Heating buildings & driving around are the greenhouse gas demons in Concord
Everybody talks about cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions but it’s hard to say you’ve cut them unless you know what you’re emitting in the first place. That’s the thinking behind a just-released Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the city of...Ranked-choice voting for presidential race is OK for Maine
UPDATE THE NEXT DAY: make that “probably used” – Maine’s high court to reconsider ruling allowing ranked-choice voting in presidential race (story here). “Ranked-choice voting will be used in the presidential election in Maine this fall after...
N.H. has its own source for a ‘feral swine bomb’
Anybody who has raised pigs or visited a pig farm knows that while this animal is smart and cute, they can be destructive and mean and dangerous as all get-out. Wild pigs are even more so, which is why their continued spread in the U.S. and Canada is one of the more...
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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.