Kei trucks are a class of Japanese small truck that can do most of what American bloat-mobile pickups can do without most of the bulk. Some state DMVs say they're not road-worthy but it seems they can be convinced otherwise: Massachusetts just allowed these trucks on...

One of the many nice things that climate change is ruining is pond skating. Strapping on the ice skates and making your way across the local pond/lake, going around islands or tufts of vegetable and over rough spots is *way* more fun than skating indoors, even if...

Any big city exhibits aspects of William Gibson’s famous line that the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed – but few take it as far as Beijing. (Yes, folks, this is an example of that fine journalistic tradition: the “What I did on my summer...

(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 15 *** Connecting Plasma Arc Torches and Related Systems and Methods...

Bans on sending food waste into landfills haven't worked in any state except Massachusetts, according to a new story, and even there the result wasn't overwhelming. The Washington Post has a story. The study identified several factors that could explain Massachusetts’...

Much of social media is nasty, as we all know, but there are places where it is charming. One of those is the Reddit subgroup about composting. Yes, composting. Every day people from around the world post pictures on the group showing their pile of rotting food in the...

I don't think any of the winners of 2024 Ig Nobel awards had a New Hampshire connection, although I'm jet-lagged from vacation so may have missed a Dartmouth fellow or something like that. The ceremony, as I noted, returned to MIT from Harvard this year. “Throughout...

New Hampshire's NH Lakes program puts people (volunteers? maybe they get a small stipend) on boat ramps at various lakes to try and keep people from accidentally hauling invasive species from one waterbody to the next. InDepthNH, an independent online news...