Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

Panic!!! It’s only 18 months to the total eclipse!

Panic!!! It’s only 18 months to the total eclipse!

The biggest solar-eclipse booster in New Hampshire – perhaps the biggest on the Eastern Seaboard – has a confession to make: “I may have started a little early.” Rik Yeames has been eagerly anticipating April 8, 2024, when a total solar eclipse will cross New...

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Delivery robot with NH roots gets nixed

The Union-Leader reports. (story here, behind paywall; why not subscribe to the state's biggest newspaper?) FedEx is ending the research and development of “Roxo” — a same-day delivery robot that was being developed with Manchester’s DEKA Research & Development...

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Maine to get 1st engineered-lumber office building

MaineBiz has the story (here): The first commercial office building in Maine that will primarily use cross-laminated timber will be funded in part by a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The 150,000-square-foot office building, at 100 Rock Row,...

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Science Cafe tackles the search for alien life

Science Cafe NH is back in meatspace mode in Nashua, meeting monthly at Margarita's Restaurant, which is located in a converted industrial building right on the Nashua River - very cool spot. The next session is SETI, Science and the Search for Alien Life, on...

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Webinar Oct. 11 on new COVID booster

I haven't gotten the latest booster yet because it's only been two months since my last booster. But I will get it, soon - and flu shot, of course. In the meantime, check this webinar from Dartmouth Health about the booster: Maintaining a fully vaccinated status means...

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Can hunting guns, ammo outdo safety limits?

The state has taken the unusual step of closing a popular spot to waterfowl hunting after shotgun shell fragments were found in a school yard, apparently because improvements in weapons and ammunition allowed them to travel farther than expected. “It’s just designed...

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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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