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Musings and stories by the Concord Monitor's Granite Geek, reporter David Brooks.
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Granite Geek discusses why antibiotic resistance is a problem and what Dartmouth researchers are doing to help fix it.
Granite Geek discusses how people have, perhaps unknowingly, ceded privacy by installing digital devices that monitor their home.
Granite Geek David Brooks explains how New Hampshire's dated ballot-counting technology actually makes elections pretty secure from being hacked.
An inconveniently timed flight inspires Granite Geek to look at variables of scheduling airplanes.
Granite Geek recaps this month's Science Cafe and looks ahead to February.
Granite Geek discusses the drop in gas stations and why gas-powered cars might be starting to have the same "range anxiety" as EVs.
Granite Geek discusses a project in New Hampshire to save the old, weird apple varieties in the area.
In mid-November, the Monitor tried to test ranked-choice voting by printing a pretend Democratic primary ballot and seeing what readers thought. The response was far more than anticipated.
Granite Geek explains how ranked-choice voting works and how you can practice.
Granite Geek looks at a 3D printing conference at Dartmouth College and what it says about a technology that has gone through the whole hype cycle.
Granite Geek explains why some foresters are adding trees and branches to smaller streams.
Granite Geek discusses a Dartmouth study that looked at what people thought of Tripadvisor reviews.
Granite Geek David Brooks tells you about a planned housing development in Amherst, N.H., that is taking an innovative approach to carbon. The homes would be carbon neutral and the surrounding farm would help make the development carbon negative.
N.H. recently tightened its arsenic regulations to 5 parts per billion, leading the way in the country. Arsenic is naturally occurring in groundwater and linked to illnesses such as bladder cancer.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Granite Geek will be hosting an extra special Science Cafe at the McAulliffe-Shepard Discovery Center.
Granite Geek takes a look at new tech adopted at the Manchester Boston Regional Airport where people who have sight impairments can have an app give auditory directions about what is around.
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