Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Towns gear up for community power
The starting gun has been fired on the most interesting energy change New Hampshire has seen in decades and Warner, the Concord area’s lone participant, is heading out of the blocks. “We’re kind of at the beginning of it all,” said Select Board Chair Clyde Carson, the...
What is it with retired engineers and misinformation?
Vaccine craziness has taken a extra-crazy turn in New Hampshire lately thanks to a 79-year-old former commercial pilot who graduated from MIT and is now in a position of power in the state legislature, where he sent a 52-page report likening vaccines to “organized...
N.H. patents through Oct. 17
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Oct. 10 to Oct. 17. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Methods of Incorporating Ad Hoc Cellular Network into Fixed Cellular Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has...
That boom was (probably) a meteor, but why do meteors boom?
That boom which rattled southern N.H. and surrounding areas late Sunday morning now seems very likely to have been a meteor exploding, probably just a few tens of miles up. You may have seen the above picture from the GOES-16 satellite Geostationary Lightning Mapper,...
Building body parts – can the state keep its lead?
Inventors who go on to build companies know that "first-mover advantage" can disappear in a heartbeat. Dean Kamen, who is best known nationally for the Segway fizzle but better known hereabouts for creating and lead DEKA, the R&D firm, and in the process...
In a Manchester park, a little piece of planet-wide species extinction
In the most unlikely of places – a hilly park overlooking downtown Manchester with as much broken glass and graffiti as trees and boulders – a small part of the world’s ecological crisis is about to play out. If studies of samples from Mexico confirm what is...
“Institute for Cellular Agriculture” is thinking big by thinking small
Is lab-grown meat or similar foodstuff ever going to be a significant part of humanity's diet? Maybe. Down the road near Boston, Tufts University is thinking about it. Tufts has been awarded $10 million over five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's...
Looking at 13 millennia (and counting) of New Hampshire’s original residents
When you’re an archaeologist, you know that there are rocks and then there are rocks. In his new book, Robert Goodby, a professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, talks about a few that his team uncovered in 2009. “We were in this quiet pine forest, dead...
Data crunchers say N.H. drivers are the best drivers in the country. Honest.
At least, that’s the conclusion you’ll reach if you mash together one company’s data about accidents, speeding tickets, DUIs and citations this year, put the result into a spreadsheet program and order it by states. New Hampshire comes out on top. This was done as a...
N.H. patents through Oct. 10
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were awarded in New Hampshire from Oct. 3 through Oct. 10 . ***Magic Leap Assigned Patent for Multi-Depth Plane Display System with Reduced Switching Between Depth PlanesMagic Leap, Plantation, Florida, has been...
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