Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Typos weren’t a tipoff in that Peterborough email scam
One of the interesting human-factor issues in email spam is typos and grammar errors. As you may now, they are often badly written/typed on purpose as a gullibility filter: People who aren't turned off by the obvious mistakes are more likely to fall for the follow-up...
“Leaves of three, loves climate emer-gen-cy”
The climate emergency is creating a lot of awful results but I really hate one of its lesser products: More and stronger poison ivy. I am pretty sensitive to the <expletive deleted> stuff. It's been known for a while that more CO2 in the atmosphere makes the plant...
The weather’s getting bad. Enjoy it while you can
Maybe I shouldn’t tempt the gods by saying this out loud but New Hampshire had a darn good summer, weather-wise. Yeah, it was miserably hot and humid sometimes, not New England-y at all, and it was alarmingly dry in the first half and too wet in the second half. North...
Nation’s first mutual bank in 50 years looks to serve the region’s farms
Everybody knows what local farms need: Land, buildings, seeds, animals, workers, people to buy what they grow. But don’t forget money, because that’s often the hardest to get. “The FDIC calls those types of businesses ‘informationally opaque.’ They don’t have...
Organic farming is complicated & not always for the reasons you’d think
By Cassidy Jensen, Concord Monitor: New pests driven north by climate change. Drought followed by record-breaking rain. Large competitors that charge lower prices while capitalizing on a trendy label. These are just some of the 21st century challenges facing the...
Fleets of vehicles will go electric, and here’s a good N.H. example
Back in February I wrote about electric-vehicle plans by Merchants Fleet, a Hooksett firm (sister to Merchants Auto) that owns $1.4 billion worth of trucks and vans and limos and cars that its leases to 120 companies in the U.S. and Canada. It manages over 150,000...
N.H. patents through Sept. 5
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 29 to Sept. 5. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Multiple Message Single Timeslot Link 16 Relay Transmission BAE Systems...
New Hampshire’s Space Force station ponders life if orbits becoming ‘war-fighting’ arenas
No obvious changes have come to one of New Hampshire’s least-known military installations as it completes the transition from Air Force to Space Force, but the increasing importance of satellites, as well as the number of nations with launch capability, may affect its...
N.H. town might that fell for phishing scam (twice) might be out of luck, insurance-wise
"When Peterborough lost $2.3 million through an email scam, t joined a growing list of businesses and towns victimized by a prevalent but easily avoided type of fraud that can fall outside insurance coverage.Officials from three other towns contacted by the...
Why do people keep seeing mountain lions (which aren’t here) but not wolves (which also aren’t)?
In my New Hampshire career I have written several, and seen at least 20, stories along the lines of "local person thinks they saw a mountain lion but there's no actual evidence aside from wishful thinking and mistaken sightings, which is the same evidence we have for...
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