Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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....
Shaking up computational algorithms like a bowl full of jelly
(After this column appeared in the Monitor, a reader pointed out an unspoken assumption: Who says Santa exists only in 3 dimensions? "Free yourself of the constraints imposed by a XYZ-based mindset and posit that Santa exists in 5 dimensions!" he wrote.) As Santa...
N.H. patents through Dec. 19
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 12 to Dec. 19. University of New Hampshire Assigned Patent for Determining Quantum Efficiency of Camera The University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
If there’s a drought of snow, is that a snow drought?
From Dartmouth New Service: Periods of record low snow levels over the past decade have increased the urgency of snow research. As snow studies expand, usage of the term “snow drought” to describe seasons of abnormally low snowpack has become common. But disagreements...
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