Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through April 3
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 27 to April 3. *** DEKA Products Assigned Patent for Adhesive, Peripheral Systems, Methods for Medical Devices DEKA Products, Manchester, New...
Co-op’s switch from plastic bags has proved a behavior ‘nudge’
When Concord Co-op decided to stop using plastic bags at the checkout counters, the idea was to make some physical improvement in the environment. Turns out, it has made some mental improvement, too. “It has changed the mindset of people going through the store, it...
A summer class that involves digging in the dirt (very carefully)
An interesting field school will be taking place in Bear Brook State Park this summer, finding more details about New Hampshire’s deep past, and you can be part of it. But I’m not going to tell you where it is. “People start looking and they can destroy things...
Red Sox say carbon offsets make them ‘carbon neutral’
The Red Sox "has signed an agreement with climate finance company Aspiration, whereby a portion of proceeds from each ticket sale will be used to purchase carbon offsets. The credits not only would cover the direct and indirect impacts of operating Fenway, such as its...
They’re working on how to make maple syrup out west?!?!
There's one thing we're certain about in New England: Despite upstarts like Michigan and Wisconsin, this is the Land of Maple Syrup. (Counting New York state as honorary New England for the moment) But climate change, as has been reported many times, will be hard on...
Old hydropower buildings in Concord are still used – sort of
Two new buildings going up in south Concord near a host of hiking and biking trails will hold storage and maintenance facilities for some state agencies, including one that will be glad to move out of an often-overlooked bit of Concord’s history at Sewalls Falls....
NHBR: Bitcoin fanatic is building modular mining machines in NH
Some cryptocurrency fans make Tesla fans look restrained, and a Canadian company that has started building modular bitcoin-mining machines in Berlin, NH, is one of them. As Bob Sanders reports in New Hampshire Business Review, the Canadian company Cathedra Bitcoin...
Cashew-based cheese maker in N.H.
Business N.H. magazine has a short profile of a New Hampshire firm that's part of the plant-based-nonplant-food market - in this case, a "cheese" made from cashews rather than dairy products. The story is here. Nuttin' Ordinary (ugh - I hate product names that are...
N.H. patents through March 27
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 20 to March 27. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Consumable Cartridge for Plasma Arc Cutting System Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been...
New COVID strain rises as our cases and hospitalizations hit new lows
A more contagious COVID-19 variant is on the rise in New England, but experts still don’t know whether that’s bad news. When scientists talked about the Omicron variant this winter, they were most likely referring to the subvariant called BA.1, which was responsible...
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