Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

N.H. COVID numbers still look good-ish

(This column ran Monday with data from the previous week. Different data and different analysis can produce different conclusions, as I noted in this item in the paper Tuesday.) It’s a journalistic truism that, human nature being what it is, bad news sells papers....

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Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, with live music

Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, with live music

I have a feeling that a large percentage of my readers like old-time silent films, especially comedies. There's something about that pre-digital era that appeals to geek fans, as "steampunk" demonstrates. So let me make a pitch for my local indie movie house, the...

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COVID deaths and doubling time

One of the measures of population growth is "doubling time" - the time it takes for a population to double in size. I've been tracking the total number of COVD-related deaths in New Hampshire (as compared to the average daily number, which is what I've been tracking...

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New pathways could help treat RNA viruses

From UNH News Service: Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have identified new pathways in an RNA-based virus where inhibitors, like medical treatments, unbind. The finding could be beneficial in understanding how these inhibitors react and potentially help...

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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.

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