And (honk, honk!) we’re back ($#&*@!! traffic)
Traffic counts at E-ZPass stations on New Hampshire highways are back to the level they were at before the stay-at-home order arrived March 28. So one of the few benefits of the pandemic has faded away. Car traffic is actually slightly behind the long-term average...
Delightfully named lumpfish might boost caged salmon production
From UNH News Service: Sea lice hurt Atlantic salmon, steelhead trout and other salmonids, and researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire believe using lumpfish as cleanerfish—fish that eat parasites off other...
COVID goals met – now what? We stay the course, that’s what!
(UPDATE: This ran Monday and I write this on Thursday. Numbers have continued to be good: No new hospitalizations for three days has driven the 14-day average to a record low and new cases are below 30 a day. We’re still seeing some deaths in nursing homes,...Clever idea: Donate solar credits to struggling businesses
Those clever folks at Green Mountain Power created an app so that people with rooftop solar (there are a lot of them in Vermont) can donate solar credits to local businesses struggling because of the pandemic. Here’s a Rutland Herald story about...N.H. patents through June 28
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 21 to June 28. *** Pica Product Development Assigned Patent for Cellular Automated External Defibrillator Tracker Pica Product Development, Derry, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
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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.