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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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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.

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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

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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.

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“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...

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

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

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"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...

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a Project 2025 heat pump xkcd.com/3099/

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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)

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

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

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

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Getting vaccinated isn't just a personal-freedom decision

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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!"

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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...

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

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New England continues its slow crawl to 1 gig of utility solar installed - we're *very* close to 900 MW

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www.thedrive.com/news/the-las...

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A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

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This is like "can't take vaccines because we don't know what's in them despite the fact that they're very, very regulated, but take plenty of wild supplements although we don't know what's in them because they're completely unregulated" thinking maybe "thinking" is the wrong word

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Whoa - congrats to WildType on FDA approval for its delicious cultivated salmon. No antibiotics, no microplastics, no pesticides, no dead fish. And it’s made in the USA - no need to import salmon from the ends of the earth! ampsinnovation.org/statement-fr...

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