When big trees fall over in a storm, their upended root masses can the raised six, ten or more feet in the air. They slowly rot over many years forming what's called a tip-up or, after many decades, a pillow. (Alongside the pillow will be a depression where the roots...

One New Hampshire spring tradition is declaration of "ice out" on lakes, of which the most famous is on Lake Winnipesaukee, the state's biggest body of fresh water. This year it was declared on April 5, which is pretty early. The announcement led a reader to ask me:...

A lot of meteorological records that are kept - wind, precipitation, snowfall, temperature - but I didn't realize that sunshine was one of them. Silly me! The Blue Hill Observatory in Massachusetts says that March tied for the sunniest on record with 1915: 243 hours...

Keene was among the first - maybe the first - New Hampshire city to start testing of sewage for SARS-CoV2 viruses (here's my story from last August). Now they're testing for two variants, as well, as the Keene Sentinel reports. I suspect this will become routine...

As a rule I don't pay much attention to surveys of people's attitudes about things that don't exist yet, because their vague assumptions about what's involved (based on the usually vague wording in the survey) have nothing to do with reality. But let's make an...

One of the difficulties in getting people like you – and I suppose me, too – to be on guard against bad guys online, is that we are not quite as clever as we think. “In graduate school, I worked in a computer lab managing systems, and what fascinated me is how people...

From UNH News Service. Climatic outcomes at lower latitudes could be, in part, affected by changes to microbial communities in the Arctic, where the thawing of permafrost changes how microbes contribute to global greenhouse gas production.    To further...

NHPR crunched the numbers and found that more New Hampshire residents died in 2020 than any year on record, thanks to COVID-19. The story is here. An interesting tidbit is that not only did more people die, more died at home: "Medical providers cautioned early in the...

By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 28 to April 4. *** En Technology Assigned Patent for Digital Audio Communication, Control En Technology, Keene, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,966,039,...