by David Brooks | Dec 4, 2016 | Blog
The November Science Cafe Concord discussed 3-D printing and had the subtitle “Has it lived up to its promise?” The panelists, from printer-manufacturer SolidScape in Merrimack, Technology Education Concepts in Concord and Manchester Makerspace, made a...
by David Brooks | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog
UPDATE: Online petitions may be pointless, but competing ones have been created at Change.org over this issue – this one supports the hotel; and this one opposes it. The owner of the Cog Railway has an idea: Build a 35-room hotel alongside – maybe even...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Because of the way cannabis grows (lots and lots of heat is needed), it is generally cultivated indoors and requires tons of electricity. As much as half of one percent of all electricity in Colorado current goes to indoor cannabis farming! The Energy Gang, an...
by David Brooks | Dec 1, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Science Cafe New Hampshire takes December off, but SEE Science Center in Manchester still holds its science-chat-in-a-bar session, called Science on Tap. Its held at the Stark Brewing Company, 50 Commercial St. in Manchester, on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at 6 p.m., and the...
by David Brooks | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog
Local media is finally getting back to other stories in the post-election days, and one of those is our drought – which is continuing, despite a relatively rainy month. The Uniobn-Leader and NHPR have had “we’re still in a drought” stories and...
by David Brooks | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog
A new prime number has been discovered through a crowdsourced system – but it’s not from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Project, about which I have written often. This was found by Seventeen or Bust, a similar project to find Sierpinski numbers. I had...
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