Granite Geek

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Musings and stories by the Concord Monitor's Granite Geek, reporter David Brooks.

  1. 03/05/2020

    Episode 66: Antibiotic resistance is scary stuff

    Granite Geek discusses why antibiotic resistance is a problem and what Dartmouth researchers are doing to help fix it.

    7 min

  2. 02/19/2020

    Episode 65: Privacy and digital assistants

    Granite Geek discusses how people have, perhaps unknowingly, ceded privacy by installing digital devices that monitor their home.

    8 min

  3. 02/14/2020

    Episode 64: Low tech voting for the win

    Granite Geek David Brooks explains how New Hampshire's dated ballot-counting technology actually makes elections pretty secure from being hacked.

    6 min

  4. 02/06/2020

    Episode 63: Optimizing airtravel

    An inconveniently timed flight inspires Granite Geek to look at variables of scheduling airplanes.

    6 min

  5. 01/24/2020

    Episode 62: Science Cafe talks about voting

    Granite Geek recaps this month's Science Cafe and looks ahead to February.

    8 min

  6. 01/09/2020

    Episode 61: Gas stations folding

    Granite Geek discusses the drop in gas stations and why gas-powered cars might be starting to have the same "range anxiety" as EVs.

    5 min

  7. 12/19/2019

    Episode 60: Save the apples

    Granite Geek discusses a project in New Hampshire to save the old, weird apple varieties in the area.

    7 min

  8. 12/10/2019

    Episode 59: 'Monitor' readers use ranked choice voting to thin Democratic field (theoretically)

    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.

    10 min
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Musings and stories by the Concord Monitor's Granite Geek, reporter David Brooks.

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  • Creator
    granitegeek
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2020
  • Episodes
    67
  • Rating
    Clean
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