GraniteGeek on the air: Cartooning, engineering and a MOOC

It’s hard to think about Massive Online Open Courses without thinking of that “Mean Streets” scene in which most of us first heard the word “mook” (here’s the scene, if you missed it), but that’s what I had to do with Peter Biello of New Hampshire Public Radio for our latest chat. It concerns my Monitor column this week about a Dartmouth MOOC on the engineering of structures that use cartoons from that wild Vermont institution, the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Here’s the NHPR piece, so put on your headphones and have a listen.

Here’s my column.

And here’s the course in question.