Celebrating our ‘father of home video games’
This year would have seen the 100th birthday of Ralph Baer, as I’ve noted, and now that the weather’s nice they’re going to celebrate it in Manchester, where he lived for more than half his life. The event will take place Saturday (May 21) in Arms...
Granite Geek: ‘Unprecedented’ is our new weather ‘normal’
Of all the shocking weather emergencies we’ve seen in recent years, the one that really made the hair stand up on the back of my neck was last July’s wildfire that destroyed an entire town in British Columbia. That out-of-nowhere disaster hits home in New England...As COVID hospitalizations keep rising, public updates get rarer
Two pieces of news last week reflected what I suspect will be the pandemic’s reality for the foreseeable future: It’s not going away but we’re paying less attention. The not-going-away part shows up in the daily data released by the New Hampshire Hospital Association....Another tick carrying nasty diseases is just about here
The Valley News (story here) has an update on efforts to see whether the lone star Tick has made it to Vermont yet – as it will do any day now: Adult females have a distinctive white star on their backs. Nymphs and adult females are the most likely to bite...N.H. patents through May 15
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from May May 8 through May 15. *** Allegro MicroSystems Assigned Patent for Rotary Inductive Sensor Allegro MicroSystems, Manchester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
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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 WGIR-AM radio..
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.