When it comes to electric vehicle charging, we are “Cow Hampshire”
New Hampshire’s attempts to use some of the Volkswagen “dieselgate” money to build electric vehicle charging stations on major highways fizzled last year due to a lack of suitable bids to the state’s request for proposals – we’re going to...COVID testing: Fast, accurate – choose one
I don’t usually point to preprints, or papers released without peer review, but this one on medRxiv, the preprint server for health sciences, is interesting: “For COVID-19-like viral parameters, a test with 40% false negatives and immediate result might...They’ve begun testing a Lyme vaccine for humans
It’s actually not a vaccine but a “pre-exposure prophylaxis” that delivers antibodies to you instead of triggering the immune system to make them, which I think means it would have to be given every year. It was developed in Massachusetts although...Another plaque in Hanover honors creation of BASIC
The IEEE has put up a historical marker on the Dartmouth campus honoring the creation of BASIC. Dartmouth News has a story here. The IEEE Milestone marker at the Collis Center to commemorate the creation of the BASIC programming language in the building’s...UNH to study of ‘wilderness therapy’ can help teens
UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire’s Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center will receive $2.97 million in grants to conduct a first-of-its-kind randomized study looking at the effectiveness of outdoor behavioral health (OBH), or wilderness therapy, a...
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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.