Why you shouldn’t be convinced by all those mountain lion ‘sightings’
Eric Orff was a wildlife biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game for 31 years, most of it as “furbearer biologist”, and he was an early user of the World Wide Web to disseminate information to the rest of us. He has retired now but he maintains his...Telemedicine needs regulation more than technology
Telemedicine has always seemed like an obvious use of the online world – Skyping for your health, so to speak. It’s fun to think of the technical possibilities – a nurse or doctor “examining” you from far away via remote-control robotics,...3D printing is a dud! Well, maybe not.
When I set up some online accounts for Granite Geek a few years ago it required a horizontal photo, so I put together the Granite Geek logo with one of my columns from the Concord Monitor. I had to choose a column that ran at the top of the page so it would show me...Cord-cutting & FCC changes alarm the most hyper-local of TV
Community access television – those hyper-local TV channels created as part of cable TV contracts – gets no respect but it is, in many ways, what the internet was before the online world became a soul-killing greedfest: Very focused on community, often...New Hampshire patents
The Concord Monitor runs a list of patents that have been issued recently to companies or individuals in New Hampshire, broken down a week at a time. If you’re in a patent-hunting mood, check it out: https://www.concordmonitor.com/Keyword?keyword=patents....
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Science Cafe NHAbout Granite Geek
Dave Brooks has written a science/tech column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on topics of geekish interest in and around New Hampshire, from software to sea level rise, population dynamics to printing (3-D, of course). He moderates monthly Science Cafe NH discussions, beer in hand, and discusses the geek world regularly on WKXL radio in Concord.
Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.