Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Arctic scientists test underwater (and under-ice) drone in Vermont Lake
Vtdigger, one of two statewide independent news organizations in Vermont, has a story about REMUS 600, a 16-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle programmed that was tested below the ice on Willoughby Lake by engineers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,...
A year of COVID produced 349 “excess” NH deaths; what caused them?
This week New Hampshire will mark a grim anniversary: A full year of COVID-19 deaths. On March 23, 2020, the state’s first official death was announced due to what we were calling “the novel coronavirus.” The virus hasn’t seemed novel for a long time now but the...
“Rule of 86” calculation time for syrup makers
If you're going to do local journalism in Vermont, you can't churn out predictable "oh boy it's maple syrup season!" stories. You've got to delve into the mathematics of the process, as the Valley New does here. What, you didn't know the Rule of 86?
N.H. patents through March 21
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from March 14 to march 21. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Systems for Protecting Secured Network Centripetal Networks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent...
It feels like we’re past COVID – but we’re not
If you're reading this after the newsletter landed in your inbox, I will have been vaccinated for about two hours. Woo-hoo! Unfortunately, since I wrote this Monday NH's COVID numbers haven't improved; in fact, the number of people in the hospital jumped yesterday....
Get ready to dial the area code on most in-state calls
Many things have changed in the way we use our telephones in the past decade but one thing hasn’t: I don’t dial the area code when making local calls on my desk phone. Alas, not for much longer. By June 2022, you and I and everybody in the state will have to dial 10...
Six N.H. residents charged with money laundering via bitcoin
Six people including a novelty candidate for governor were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in New Hampshire on charges of participating in a conspiracy to launder money using virtual currency such as bitcoin. According to an indictment handed down by a U.S....
It’s still legal for NH state employees to modify the weather, even with a ground-based gun
I'd hate to choose just one section of New Hampshire laws that is the weirdest, but Chapter 12-F has to be in the running. It says, in totality: Any department or agency of the state may, with the approval of the governor and council and within the limits of...
N.H. gets deliberate fires to prevent accidental fires
New Hampshire has long seen prescribed burning around Concord Municipal Airport, in order to maintain the ecosystem that supports the Karner blue and frosted elfin butterflies. (Story here) But now, as NHPR reports (here), we're going to start seeing some deliberate...
Tick tubes or bait boxes – which kills more ticks?
The snow is gone or going, depending on where you live in the state, so it's time to start worrying about ticks. There's a new study of two similar methods to get small rodents to apply pesticide to themselves: tick tubes and bait boxes. I I wrote about tick tubes...
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