Guess I’d better buy my wood pellets soon …
The price hikes and supply crunches that have clobbered fuel supplies and raised prices throughout the world are starting to affect the one fuel we can call our own: Wood pellets. “There is quite a bit available right now but with the ongoing situation, there might be...Historic NH newspapers join Library of Congress, digitally
The first newspaper known to be printed by an enslaved person, the nation’s oldest school newspaper, and a newspaper printed on top of Mount Washington will soon be part of the digital Library of Congress as New Hampshire joins the project known as Chronicling...N.H. patents through Sept. 18
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 18. Vapotherm Assigned Patent for Quiet Nasal Cannula Vapotherm, Exeter, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,439,784, initially filed...NH EV-charging plans approved by feds
New Hampshire is one of 35 states that have had their plans for federally-funded EV charging stations approved in the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. The plan is still kind of vague: For example, it says there will be a station in Concord, but...This is the kind of sex act we really don’t want to see
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have documented the first discovery of a pair of recently mated blue crabs in Great Bay Estuary (GBE), a finding that is expected to have serious impacts on the estuary’s ecosystem, particularly its fragile oyster...
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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.