Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

Plastic ‘recycling’ is a joke – a painful one

"Tthe high recycling rates of post-consumer paper, cardboard, and metals prove thatrecycling can be an effective way to reclaim valuable natural material resources. The problemlies not with the concept or process of recycling but with the material itself – it is...

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N.H. patents through May 1

By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from April 24 through May 1. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection Centripetal...

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UNH to monitor underwater sound for Vineyard Wind

UNH to monitor underwater sound for Vineyard Wind

Vineyard Wind, the offshore-wind farm that hopes to start producing power next year, has announced a new multi-year collaboration with the University of New Hampshire to deploy a Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) device to record ambient sound and marine mammal...

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Sex secrets of amphibian singing choruses

Sex secrets of amphibian singing choruses

The above headline is taken from the Dartmouth press release because I can't improve on any headline starting with "sex secrets". The web story (here it is) has a link to a video/audio recording showing this cool camera at work. NY Times Science has a story today too...

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About Granite Geek

Dave Brooks has written a weekly science/tech newspaper column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on geekish topics in and around the Granite State. He discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio, and moderated the monthly Science Cafe NH sessions when they were still a thing. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.

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, Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau (of all places) and his 2024 induction into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.

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