Dartmouth researchers develop a glue that sometimes isn’t gluey (which is good)
One of the most intriguingly successful inventions of my life has been Post-It Notes. The idea that glue which doesn’t work very well could create an important product was counter-intuitive and bravo to the folks at 3M who pursued it. So it’s interesting...How did we get vaccines so fast? Scientific collaboration and open access
A report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development about COVID-19 makes clear the obvious: Vaccines were developed in record time because scientists around the world are good at rising above nationalism, and they also rose above commercial interest....
HVDC line through Maine might actually get built
The developer of a high-voltage DC transmission line through Maine that would carry 1,200 megawatts of hydropower down from Quebec says access road plowing started Monday and construction will around Jan. 18. This is the line that was proposed after New Hampshire shot...As COVID vaccines (slowly) arrive, patience is a virtue
There’s a very good chance that you, loyal reader, won’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 for a couple of months, or maybe longer. My advice is to take a deep breath and accept it. We have reached the beginning of the end of this pandemic but there’s a long, difficult...Buried stones can tell us the last time they saw daylight
Carrie Deegan of the Forest Society has a column in the Union-Leader today talking about a study in New Hampshire at a long-gone town called Monson (divvied up between Hollis and Milford) for a technology to determine how long rock structures have been buried....
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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.