Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Even for the rich, the good old days included intestinal parasites
Archaeologists love trash pits and outhouse sites because what we discard, either physical or biological, tells a lot about life. The Valley News has a good story about a dig in a former "privy" (love that word) in Hanover that reminded us how much unpleasant...
Two ‘science cafes’ in N.H. are better than one
Science Café New Hampshire in Nashua and Concord and the SEE Science Center's Science on Tap in Manchester are teaming up to celebrate 10 years of bringing people and panelists together for informal science conversations. On June 15th these two programs are joining...
Getting eelgrass back in Great Bay will take a lot of work
Warming waters in Great Bay may be contributing to die-off of eelgrass, a cornerstone species in New Hampshire's huge tidal basin. New Hampshire Bulletin, a new statewide news organization, has a story about pilot projects to try replanting eelgrass to get the...
N.H. patents through June 6
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from May 30 to June 6. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Inter-PGW Handover Architecture Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,026,276,...
Without good information, clean energy is hard to turn on
New Hampshire Bulletin, a new statewide online news organization staffed by some experienced former newspaper reporters and editors, has a good story about the esoteric topic of how a statewide energy data hub could make creating a 21st-century power system easier....
‘Structural round timber’ sounds much better than ‘logs’
Regular readers will know I'm a big fan of manufactured lumber, a.k.a cross-laminated timber (CLT) or engineered wood. It's basically a way to glue together smaller pieces of timber to create wooden beams which can replace a lot of steel and even concrete in mid-rise...
A crypto mogul and an alleged fraudster tussle over closed Vermont college
Marlboro College was a classic small liberal-arts New England college, tucked in a small (1,000 people) Vermont town. It's also classic in that it went bust, as I fear many such schools will do as the demographic collapse continues. The story of what will happen to it...
Can I think of a better name for a vaccine lottery than Ohio’s Vax-a-Million?
As you probably know, New Hampshire was a leader in the lottery game, approving the nation’s first state-run lottery in 1964, back when tickets cost $3 and the winning number was based on horse race results at Rockingham Park. With the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations...
No electricity shortfalls in the cards for New England this summer
The region has more than enough electricity production to meet demand this summer under typical or extreme weather conditions, according to the organization that oversees New England’s power grid. In its annual forecast for the summer, ISO-New England says it expects...
N.H. now has the region’s last coal-burning electricity plant
Bridgeport Harbor Station Unit 3 in Connecticut shut Monday, as had long been planned. The 400-MW unit had been in operation for 53 years. That leaves Merrimack Station in Bow as the last coal-burning plant producing electricity in New England. There are still...
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