Building body parts – can the state keep its lead?
Inventors who go on to build companies know that “first-mover advantage” can disappear in a heartbeat. Dean Kamen, who is best known nationally for the Segway fizzle but better known hereabouts for creating and lead DEKA, the R&D firm, and in the...
In a Manchester park, a little piece of planet-wide species extinction
In the most unlikely of places – a hilly park overlooking downtown Manchester with as much broken glass and graffiti as trees and boulders – a small part of the world’s ecological crisis is about to play out. If studies of samples from Mexico confirm what is...“Institute for Cellular Agriculture” is thinking big by thinking small
Is lab-grown meat or similar foodstuff ever going to be a significant part of humanity’s diet? Maybe. Down the road near Boston, Tufts University is thinking about it. Tufts has been awarded $10 million over five years by the U.S. Department of...
Looking at 13 millennia (and counting) of New Hampshire’s original residents
When you’re an archaeologist, you know that there are rocks and then there are rocks. In his new book, Robert Goodby, a professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, talks about a few that his team uncovered in 2009. “We were in this quiet pine forest, dead...UNH grants reflect growing interest in the science of the dirt beneath our feet
University of New Hampshire scientists have received three grants totaling $1 million that will support research addressing questions of soil sustainability and, ultimately, food production in New Hampshire and beyond. The projects range from using state-of-the-art...
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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.