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COVID and America’s population stagnation
The U.S. was already facing a very slow rate of population growth, due to smaller families among non-Hispanic whites and to our crackdown on immigration, before COVID-19 scrambled everything. Now there’s a possibility that deaths may exceed births in the country...Yes you should clean surfaces, but COVID often spreads via aerosols – hence ‘distancing’
As the COVID-19 shutdown spreads, we know not to get close to other people. But what about pets? Swingsets in the park? The daily copy of the Concord Monitor? Should we stay away from those, too? This virus is so new that answers are still being developed, but a study...Shutdown visible in NH driving, electricity usage
Traffic on New Hampshire turnpike system is plummeting, judging from trips at the state’s tollbooths. Data for the past four weeks: WEEK ENDING – TOTAL TRIPSMARCH 1 – 2,109,479MARCH 8 – 2,157,186MARCH 15 – 1,985,029MARCH 22 – 1,351,693 (lowest in past year by about...Remembering Spanish Flu brings to mind the ‘doomed to repeat it’ line
America downplayed the Spanish Flu because they didn’t want to harm the war economy, and Concord ended up turning Main Street buildings into emergency hospitals. That’s one lesson I learned when I interviewed a local historian about how New Hampshir...
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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 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.