Put some ‘biofloc’ in a kiddie pool and become a shrimp farmer!
The Boston Globe has a nice piece about UNH research into backyard shrimp farming, as a possible addition to the local-food movement. The shrimp can be cultivated in any larger container or tank, or even a backyard kiddie pool, at a relatively low cost. …. The...
Dartmouth is doubling down on quantum computing
These days, computers are old hat. If they want to be interesting, you need to think smaller – much smaller. As in subatomic, quantum-level small. “There are fundamentally different principles that quantum mechanics brings. There are types of quantum correlations that...Rising sea levels are – surprise! – hurting New England coastal property values
A group called First Street Foundation with help from some Columbia University data scientists has crunched some numbers and says that increased erosion and tidal flooding caused by rising sea levels, caused in turn by climate change, have trimmed $15.2 million off...
Let’s boldly go into the future – as in, the Atlantic Time Zone
Once again there are efforts in the legislature to get away from Daylight Saving Time by moving us into the Atlantic Time Zone and dumping the twice-a-year clock shift. A bill (HB567) would do it for New Hampshire as long as Massachusetts and Maine also do it....Should New Hampshire let an algorithm draw our political boundaries?
There’s a bill before the state Legislature that would designate a “computer algorithm” to draw our political boundaries. It’s similar to one introduce last year by the same legislator – I wrote about that effort one year ago. It went...
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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 New Hampshire Public 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.