Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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...
Tesla came in 15th in the Mt. Washington Auto Road race
The Tesla Model S Plaid came in 15th in the Climb to the Clouds race up Mt. Washington's Auto Road. The best time of its two runs was 7:05, about 1:31 slower than the winner, which was a record set in a Subaru WRX which had been tweaked to have 862 (!!!!) horsepower....
N.H. reflects national patterns in the census: Rural areas emptier, exurbs/suburbs/urban grow (slowly)
The latest release of 2020 census data showed no surprises for New Hampshire: Slow growth within fringe commuting distance of Boston and the Seacoast, not much growth elsewhere, shrinkage up North and along the non-Dartmouth parts of the Connecticut River Valley. But...
If you’re not vaccinated, the Delta surge should have you worried
It might feel like it sometimes, but when it comes to COVID-19 we are not actually back to Square One. Square Two, maybe, but not Square One. That’s about as optimistic as I can get. The depressing deja vu comes because new cases of COVID-19 are rising fast in New...
Many ‘compostable’ items aren’t really, and that’s a problem for waste streams
The Valley News has a good story on the problem that so-called compostable items like bags, plates and utensils are posing for landfills - especially in Vermont, which has a strict no-food-waste-in-landfill law. Basically, too many "compostable" items aren't, really,...
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