Ballot selfies are legal but their low-tech equivalent is still forbidden
New Hampshire election officials’ opposition to people being allowed to make “ballot selfies” – taking photos of their completed ballot and posting them online – is rooted in a long-standing desire to keep our voting habits secret....Local colleges adding e-sports
The newest high-profile hire at New England College is carefully polite when asked whether his expertise, online gaming, faces any kind of generational divide. “There are always going to be critics – ‘Is this beneficial?’ ” asked Tyrelle Appleton, the 25-year-old MBA...
There’s celebration of the state tree at our biggest airport, but (oops), wrong tree
UPDATE: I put this item up in June. On Nov. 9, the airport responded on twitter: Identifying trees is hard – I can’t get much beyond evergreen vs. deciduous. Still, it’s kind of embarrassing that one of the state’s highest-profile tree...Keep in touch
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Ranked-choice voting may decide Congressional seat in Maine
Tuesday’s election in Maine was the first time that ranked-choice voting has ever been used in a statewide election in the U.S., and right now it looks like it will be needed: As of Thursday morning (Nov. 8) the race in the 2nd Congressional District is too...
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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.