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Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor reporter. Daily newspaper reporter for 43+ years. Emphasis on sci/tech, business, energy, environment. Granite Geek blog & newsletter (as in The Granite State) since 2006: granitegeek.org. [email protected]. he/him
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A dire pollution warning in 1970 in the Manchester Union-Leader, not exactly a tree-hugger publication in the Bill Loeb days: "If it requires a touch of hysteria, so be it"

It's been six decades since people were spilling their guts to ELIZA. I'm almost surprised this took so long. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

It continues to baffle me that *everyone* is hostile to Big Anything, with this one glaring exception. Big Supplement gets a free pass to sell you shit you don't need, might be harmful, and is often very expensive. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/fo...

Seeing the frenzied discussion among by age group about Brian Wilson, who was great but not that revolutionary despite Pet Sounds, makes me shudder to think what it's going to be like when Dylan dies.

Latest in weird and unexpected consequences of climate change: Warmer oceans are changing the way sound behaves underwater, making it increasingly difficult to detect submarines

Today on Volts: a key technology at the center of the electric revolution gets very little attention. The motor! Some 40% of all electricity passes through motors & that number is only rising. I talk to a company making motors lighter, easier to manufacture, and free of rare earth metals.

“Demographers say that the baby bonuses and other short-term perks offered in some countries do not boost population size because they fail to consider persistent structural issues, like paid parental leave, child care and housing costs.” 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/w...

A disturbing post from the creator of the great SMBC web comic and some fascinating books.

Reading (or, at least, peering intently at pictures) is fundamental.

"We are seeing low fertility, population ageing, population stagnation used as an excuse to implement nationalist, anti-migrant policies and gender conservative policies," www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

a Project 2025 heat pump xkcd.com/3099/

It's pouring rain in much of New England but even so, the six-state power grid estimates there's 1,200 MW of rooftop solar power flowing in the grid, the same as a nuclear power plant (the top, yellow line shows reported load plus estimated BTM solar)

Washington Post manages to sometimes do journalism about its billionaire overlord. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is a Vermont company. (Yes, Vermont!)

I don't sew but this still seems bad. American capitalism really is failing in many ways.

Getting vaccinated isn't just a personal-freedom decision

According to historian John Ross, when President-elect John Kennedy asked outgoing President Eisenhower why D-Day had gone so well, Eisenhower replied, “Because we had better meteorologists than the Germans!"

Techbros, like most of us, think politics is easy, done by people who can't get a real job. But getting large numbers of people to agree on difficult issues is just about the hardest thing that people do. That's why non-politicians often fail at politics. cleantechnica.com/2025/06/05/i...

Worse than April and barely beat March with my rooftop panels.