Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire 

It’s March Madness month, for CoCoRaHS

It’s March Madness month, for CoCoRaHS

Regular readers will know that for close to a decade I've measured precipitation every day for a national citizen-science group called CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain Hail Snow network). I mention it so often that some readers have made fun of me for it ("go...

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Celebrate World Water Day – tour a sewage plant

Celebrate World Water Day – tour a sewage plant

What better way to spend your lunch hour than visiting the local sewage-treatment plant? That's not a joke - wastewater plants are fascinating places full of interesting engineering solutions and they usually don't smell bad. I heartily recommend touring one if you...

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Why do boys have so much more autism than girls?

From UNH News Service Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are one step closer to helping answer the question of why autism is four times more common in boys than in girls after identifying and characterizing the connection of certain proteins in the brain...

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‘Tiny homes’, big debate

As the debate about tiny homes makes its way through the state Legislature the discussion often hinges on items like square footage and septic hookups, but there’s another factor that one fan says is important to keep in mind: School loans. “A friend of mine was going...

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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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