Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Acadia is the least-bad national park when it comes to invasive plants
A study of invasive plants in national parks found that Acadia in Maine, the northeast's only national park, is the least affected by this global problem - but it's still affected. Invasive plants were found in 50 percent of plots in 39 parks. Ten parks had at least...
N.H. patents through Dec. 27
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 20 to Dec. 27. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Cell ID Disambiguation Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,873,884, initially...
Are elves human? Primates? Something else? Epidemiologists need to know
Thanks to timely announcements from Dr. Fauci, we know that Santa Claus is immune from COVID-19. However, an investigation by the GeekWitness News Team has uncovered a shocking fact: This immunity may not extend to his elves! This is significant because Santa is upper...
Keeping track of temperatures is suddenly big(-er) business
One of the unexpected results of the pandemic has been to focus attention on formerly obscure technologies that everybody suddenly cares about, like face-mask design and ventilation filters. Here’s another example, one that has a Warner company scrambling: Temperature...
C-130 was testing a decontamination system before it was hauled through Concord
Remember that C-130 fuselage that raised so many eyebrows when it was trucked through downtown Concord last month? I wrote several stories speculating but not really knowing why it was here. At last the story can be told! (The U.S. military does many things well but...
Rural broadband launched by co-op utility in four towns
New Hampshire Electric Co-operative, which this year included broadband internet among the services it aims to provide, has rolled out the service in four small western N.H. towns: Lempster, Clarksville, Colebrook and Stewartstown. Speeds are "up to 1 gigabit"...
Snow measurement is Heisenberg uncertain
You know how the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal says (roughly) that we can't accurately know the velocity and the location of a sub-atomic particle at the same time because measuring one alters the other? Measurement of snow depth is like that, too: You can't know...
N.H. patents through Dec. 20
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Dec. 13 to Dec. 20. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Heterogeneous Mesh Network Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,869,201, initially...
Granite Geek classic: “That snow fence – you did it wrong”
This is my most popular snow-related piece, which first ran in 2016. Today's very fine snowstorm over the whole Northeast means it's time for a rerun! I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the...
N.H. has seen 440 more deaths this year than COVID can explain: Is that significant?
How many people have died in New Hampshire because of COVID-19? That seems a straightforward question but it’s actually pretty complicated. One possible answer is: 440 more than we have counted. As of late November the answer was about 500, according to the state’s...
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