Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Wildlife app in hand, Bioblitz will swarm onto town-owned lands next month
Around 4 percent of the land in New Hampshire is owned by towns and cities but if my experience is anything to go by, a lot of it is a closed book. “Municipalities don’t always have a lot of good information about the biodiversity and ecology of those lands,” is how...
You want UFO stuff, Canadian TV? UNH has UFO stuff!
From UNHinnovation: UNHInnovation recently licensed various pieces from the Betty and Barney Hill collection - UFO-related artifacts from Betty and Barney Hill, the couple who made the first well-documented and widely reported UFO abduction report in the United States...
Spoofed accounts swipe millions from NH town, twice
Cybersecurity is an increasing concern in NH as everything goes online, where a whole new set of bad guys are waiting. I wrote about it in May (Cybersecurity bootcamp launched) and April (Cybersecurity Initiative) and today I wrote about it because a small town was...
COVID: More people are now getting sick in NH than getting vaccinated
As I write this, the state’s official numbers indicated that 2,712 state residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past two weeks, about 8% more than the 2,520 who have been added to the tally of those who are fully vaccinated. In other words, we’re falling...
Science Cafe (live! but without beer) ponders clean power
UPDATE: Here's the link to the video. Enjoy the bubble machine and the dancers in the background! For speed listeners: You can skip the three-minute intro (although you'll miss Sam's cute kid) - first we talk about electricity; at about 30 min. in we switch to...
Revenue-share crowdfunding may built a (much needed) meat processing plant
This story combines two fairly obscure topics I like reporting about - serious crowdfunding and meat processing. A Northwood farm is looking to build a badly needed meat processing plant and is taking an unusual route for raising money: sharing revenue through...
N.H. patents through Aug. 22
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Aug. 15 to Aug. 22. Collision Communications Assigned Patent for Methods, Program Products Collision Communications, Peterborough, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
Crowdsourced revenue sharing may help build a meat processing plant
A Northwood farm is looking to build a badly needed meat processing plant and is taking an unusual route for raising money: sharing revenue through crowdsourcing. “It’s not our only source of finance; it’s a little bit of a bridge to cover a gap,” said Dave Viola, one...
You can’t do anything about invasive insects unless you can find them
Wildfires may not be destroying New Hampshire’s forests as they are in so many parts of the world, but there are plenty of other threats to our woods, including a bunch I can’t see. “Here it is. See that?” said Gabriel Kellman, plant health division manager for...
Tweaking brain-stimulation device remotely helps Parkinson’s patients
From Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health: Hundreds of thousands of Americans live with neurological movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. People who live with movement disorders must deal with symptoms like uncontrolled movements, problems with physical coordination...
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