DNA & a very, very cold case
You’re familiar, I’m sure, with DNA being used to solve old murder cases. (The Bear Brook case in NH is a classic example.) Beth Potier of UNH wrote an article about a *really* cold case: A UNH biological anthropologist has helped crack a case that turned...When pets travel, pet diseases also travel
From UNH News Service: A pathologist with the New Hampshire Diagnostic Veterinary Lab at the University of New Hampshire recently diagnosed the fungal disease Valley Fever in a rescue dog from Arizona. It is the first time the lab has diagnosed this disease in a dog...Did NH give up on restoring salmon too soon? (Hint: no)
For three decades state and federal officials tried to lure Atlantic salmon back into the Merrimack River without success, until they gave up in 2014. They haven’t given up in Maine, and now comes news of a record spawning season in one of the major watersheds,...New Hampshire patents
The Concord Monitor runs a list of patents that have been issued recently to companies or individuals in New Hampshire, broken down a week at a time. If you’re in a patent-hunting mood, check it out: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Keyword?keyword=patents....Science Cafe NH in Concord on alternative voting
Science Cafe NH in Concord next week (Wednesday, Feb. 23) will take all your questions about alternative voting systems, such as the ranked-choice voting that was such a hit when I ran a test election in the Monitor last month. (“Our experiment showed that some...
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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.