Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through Jan. 9
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Jan. 2 to Jan. 9. *** Atrium Medical Assigned Patent for Chest Drainage Systems, Methods Atrium Medical, Merrimack, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,213,617, initially...
A benefit of climate change? Great Bay oysters may be spawning earlier
There are indications that as waters warm in the Great Bay, oysters may be spawning earlier than in the past, helping efforts to replenish this important species. The finding "suggests that spat brought in to augment current sites of active restoration should be...
Move 19 tons and what do you get?
(NOTE: I used to live in coal country, hence that potentially confusing headline referencing a Tennessee Ernie Ford song) There are a couple of drawbacks to New Hampshire geology. One is that we don’t have fossils – they were all melted by our igneous rocks or scraped...
Dartmouth prof wants some old ice – *really* old ice
Dartmouth Engineering has been named a collaborator on a new National Science Foundation effort to locate Antarctica's oldest ice and learn more about how the Earth's climate has changed throughout history. The Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX), will be...
Police surveillance tech in N.H.
Interesting story in the Monitor about pushback against police surveillance of the public. The whole article is here. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Atlas of Surveillance uses public information and an army of student journalists to document the tools that local...
Everybody else is seeing climate change, why not Mount Washington?
Until now, research showed Mount Washington’s summit had not yet tipped towards a significant warming trend. But a new study of the Mount Washington Observatory's data set reveals summit annual temperatures are increasing at a statistically significant rate. You can...
Vermont faces the “EVs don’t pay gas tax” question
Vermont, like many places, is looking at how to pay for roads as we get more electric vehicles, which don't pay gasoline tax. About 20 states have an annual EV "registration fee" - New Hampshire is considering one - but that's a pretty clumsy mechanism. VTDigger had a...
N.H. patents through Jan. 2
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 20, 2021, to Jan. 2, 2022. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Federated X2 Gateway Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,206,584,...
10-digit dialing is slow to arrive, but what about an initial 1?
Remember that big splash we heard in October about the arrival of mandatory 10-digit dialing to New Hampshire? It’s not really mandatory yet. Sometimes you can still connect in-state calls with good old seven digits, like 867-5309, no 603 area code necessary. It’s...
Some fun posts from this past year
No newsletter next week, between Christmas and New Year's, so here's a year-end roundup of sun fun posts from 2021. No COVID, no climate emergency, no ticks or invasive species - and, of course, no politics. November: When it comes to area codes, I can be very wrong....
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