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”Superbug” resistant to all – all – antibiotics makes it to the U.S.

by David Brooks | May 27, 2016 | Blog

UPDATE: Local hospitals are on the alert. Forget politics and crime and even the Golden State Warriors’ dilemma. The biggest news yesterday was the discovery in the U.S. of bacteria carrying the gene that makes them resistant to all antiboitics. As Boston...

I used ‘wetware’ in a story about the electric grid because I wanted to

by David Brooks | May 26, 2016 | Blog

UPDATE: On Twitter, Rudy Rucker politely told me I used the word all wrong. This is his definition. As anybody who works for a living knows, sometimes you have to indulge yourself. So I decided to use “wetware” in a story lede that had nothing whatsoever...

The herring run on the Merrimack River is the best in two decades – but why?

by David Brooks | May 26, 2016 | Blog

Herring and/or alewife, which like salmon is an anadromous species (spawn in fresh water, live in salt water), are returning to the Merrimack River this year in numbers not seen since the early 1990s. Nobody knows why, just as we’re not sure why the numbers...

It’s impossible not to smile when you see a picture of a pig’s snout

by David Brooks | May 25, 2016 | Blog

Go read the latest installment of Elodie Reed’s ongoing tale in the life of a pig, if only so you can smile at her photo of Pink 2.0’s muddy snout. Any excuse to see a picture of a pig’s snout is a good excuse. The series is titled “From Piglet...

The slow, maybe not so slow, death of the stick shift

by David Brooks | May 24, 2016 | Blog

Recently a colleague talked about going hiking in the White Mountains and absent-mindedly leaving his keys in his car at a pretty busy parking lot. When he came back down at the end of the day, the unlocked car was sitting there with the keys visible on the front...

NH sees first loon death from avian malaria – but how did we know?

by David Brooks | May 24, 2016 | Blog

Aubudon has a good story about “bird CSI” and how forensic necropsy work identified the cause of death for the first New Hampshire loon to succumb to avian malaria. (Read it here) It’s an interesting blow-by-blow account of how a pathologist figures...

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About Granite Geek

Dave Brooks has written a weekly science/tech newspaper column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on geekish topics in and around the Granite State. He discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio, and moderated the monthly Science Cafe NH sessions when they were still a thing. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.

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, Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau (of all places) and his 2024 induction into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.