Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
How many peep-able leaves are in New Hampshire?
(Regular readers: Yes, you've seen this column before. But it's timely and it's not easy right now to find items that don't involve COVID or the election.) In 2009, in the spirit of finding something to write about when news gets slow over the holidays – no, wait, I...
New Hampshire patents through Oct. 18
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Oct. 11 to Oct. 18. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Link 16 Transceiver with Integral Signal Nulling System BAE Systems Information...
COVID cases rising fast in N.H. as colder weather arrives
The long-feared autumn rise in New Hampshire COVID-19 has started to arrive, as reflected in a deterioration of the Monitor’s weekly tracking – for the first time in months we are missing two of our goals – as well as the state’s concern that community-wide...
Here’s a story about the state’s energy efficiency push that doesn’t use “negawatt”! (Such self-restraint)
It has long been known that the cheapest and cleanest unit of energy is the one you don’t need to use, and a group that includes the state’s utilities is rushing to put this into practice statewide despite the scheduling complications of COVID-19. “We were put on hold...
Science fiction awards from N.H.
The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College gives annual awards for speculative fiction. Not quite as well known as the Hugos or Nebula awards but not bad. Here's the story from Dartmouth News Service: Debut author Cadwell Turnbull won for The...
The biggest Excel error ever? British COVID mixup!
Great Britain lost more than 16,000 positive COVID-19 test results, apparently because they use an old version of Excel that doesn't have enough rows or columns to handle the data. Australian mathematics comedian Matt Parker, a well-known spreadsheet fan, has fun...
Men, you’ll be amazed to hear, take COVID-19 less seriously than women
in the U.S. right now, dudes - I think that's an appropriate term to use here - are more likely to pretend that COVID-19 isn't a big problem than women are. That extremely non-surprising result, obvious to anybody who goes into any public area and counts the gender...
All those ‘stinkbugs’ aren’t necessarily stinkbugs & may not even (officially) be bugs
There are probably a lot of bugs invading your house right now that stink when you smash them. But that doesn’t mean they’re stinkbugs. They’re more likely to be western conifer seedbugs, or perhaps box elder bugs. And they might actually be a stinkbug – the damaging...
Maybe deer aren’t the forest-killers we thought they were
The explosion in white-tailed deer throughout the Northeast hasn't been good for forests because those voracious so-and-so's eat all the tree seedlings, altering the makeup of the woods (when they're not eating all your hostas). Or so I've always heard. New research...
Mass. ‘right-to-repair’ fight is very different than ours was
The right-to-repair movement, which says you should be allowed to tinker with things you've bought, hasn't had much success in New Hampshire, or just about anywhere else. Most recently in the Granite State a "digital electronic product repair" bill that would require...
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