Episodes
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Episode 66: Antibiotic resistance is scary stuff
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Granite Geek discusses why antibiotic resistance is a problem and what Dartmouth researchers are doing to help fix it.
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Episode 65: Privacy and digital assistants
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Wednesday Feb 19, 2020
Granite Geek discusses how people have, perhaps unknowingly, ceded privacy by installing digital devices that monitor their home.
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Episode 64: Low tech voting for the win
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Friday Feb 14, 2020
Granite Geek David Brooks explains how New Hampshire's dated ballot-counting technology actually makes elections pretty secure from being hacked.
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Episode 63: Optimizing airtravel
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
An inconveniently timed flight inspires Granite Geek to look at variables of scheduling airplanes.
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Episode 62: Science Cafe talks about voting
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Granite Geek recaps this month's Science Cafe and looks ahead to February.
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Episode 61: Gas stations folding
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Granite Geek discusses the drop in gas stations and why gas-powered cars might be starting to have the same "range anxiety" as EVs.
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Episode 60: Save the apples
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Granite Geek discusses a project in New Hampshire to save the old, weird apple varieties in the area.
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
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.
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Episode 58: What is ranked choice voting?
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Granite Geek explains how ranked-choice voting works and how you can practice.
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Granite Geek Episode 57: Discovering NH's archaeological past
Thursday Oct 10, 2019
Thursday Oct 10, 2019