It took 14 rounds (!) but we have a winner in our ranked-choice presidential primary
Many newspaper subscribers like to cut things out of the paper and mail them to each other so perhaps it’s not surprising that we got far more responses than I expected in our mock ranked-choice voting ballot of the Democratic primary. A total of 384 ballots...It’s that wonderful time of year when we pull teeth out of dead deer
White-tail deer hunting season is in full swing, which means that Fish and Game wardens are yanking teeth from dead deer, bears, bobcat and moose and sending them to a lab in Montana. Why are they doing that, you ask? This story from September explains...New Hampshire law ‘subjects Reddy Kilowatt to local control’
The state’s new community power law scares me. It should excite me because it takes a very New Hampshire-y approach to the vital issue of redesigning our entire electric system for a climate-changing world. The law, passed this summer, gives towns...Electricity-to-storable-gas eyed for Maine
Good story (as usual) from Tux Turkel, Portland Press-Herald’s long-time energy writer, about the possibility of using excess power from Maine onshore wind farms, which are constrained by the grid, to generate hydrogen or methane that could then be shipped and...
Boomer is surprised to find how much e-sports is like sports
Like all humans, I regard the things that I did as a teen and pre-teen to be the proper activities for those age groups and I scorn things that have become popular since then. Playing basketball on a team, for example, is normal but playing networked computer games on...
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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 WKXL radio in Concord.
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.