Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

This summer will see two sets of cicadas emerging!

MassLive reports (here): This summer, millions of cicadas from broods XIX (emerging every 13 years) and XIII (every 17 years) will both crawl out from underground and fly across the south and Midwest looking for a mate, according to Cicadamania, a website dedicated to...

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NH wants to know more about fishers

NH wants to know more about fishers

Over the years I have occasionally glimpsed a scurrying weasel-like shape that might be a fisher but I can't say with certainty that I've ever seen one, much to my annoyance. These elusive beasts are the subject of a $2 million grant to NH Fish and Game from the...

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NH patents through Jan. 14

(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Jan. 14. *** Inter-Cell Fractional Frequency Reuse Scheduler PARALLEL...

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Concord has a chance to make a big climate move

The city of Concord has a golden opportunity to show that it's serious about its admirable clean-energy goals, but it's not the sort of opportunity you might think of. Two huge mixed-use developments are proposed for the city: here's a Monitor story about a recent...

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‘Clean cement’ factory coming to Massachusetts

In Holyoke, Mass., on the Connecticut River, they're replacing a closed paper mill with a factory that will make "clean cement." If it lives up to hopes, that would be a big deal since making cement is a huge emitter of carbon. From the article in Heatmap (read it...

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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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