Where are all the birds?!?!
From NH Audubon: Early returns from NH Audubon’s annual Backyard Winter Brid Survey point to fewer birds at feeders this winter. Why? It turns out the answer is not that simple. According to Dr. Pamela Hunt of NH Audubon, “there are many factors that influence the...Northern Woodlands looks at forest carbon
The idea of “forest carbon” is pretty straightforward – trees store carbon so it doesn’t help heat up the world! woo-hoo! – but has a lot of complicated elements. Northern Woodlands, a terrific magazine about forestry and forests...‘Advanced recycling’ isn’t going too well in N.H. so far
Last year, at the behest of the American Chemistry Council trade association, New Hampshire became the only state in New England to classify so-called “advanced recycling” facilities for plastics as manufacturing operations, rather than as more tightly regulated solid...Why doesn’t my toilet alert me if it has a leak?
You’ve probably heard the saying popular in home-insulation circles that the cheapest energy is the energy you don’t use. The same goes for water. Leaky toilets and dripping faucets can waste an awful lot of water over the course of days and weeks. Concord wants...N.H. testing new ballot-counting devices
The towns of Ashland, Winchester, Londonderry and Milford will test new ballot-counting devices at this year’s elections – which should happen Tuesday, March 14, although many towns are delaying voting because of the Nor’Easter. The Ballot Law...
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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.