Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Coastal property owners are eyeing the ocean a little nervously these days
I'm a mountain-liking guy not a beach-liking guy so rising sea levels doesn't hit me with quite the gut punch as, say, the disappearance of winters. Not so for people who own property along New Hampshire lovely, if short, coastline, who are seeing more flooding not...
Ranked-choice is on (still) for Maine’s presidential race
The Maine state supreme court has tossed yet another legal effort to prevent ranked-choice voting from being used in November's presidential election, reports Bangor Daily News. The Maine GOP could still appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
N.H. patents through Oct. 4
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 27 to Oct. 4. StanData Technology Assigned Patent for Power Adjustable Furniture Management Systems StanData Technology, Manchester, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
Electric cars are nice but electric off-roading would be really nice
I am not a motorized outdoor vehicle person. I understand the appeal of zipping around on snowmobiles and ATVs and they are an important form of transportation in very rural areas. But for recreation? No thanks: they're so damn loud and they really smell. If you've...
It’s amazingly easy to get lost in our woods
New England's forests are not exactly the deep, dark jungle of adventure books and if you're an outdoors person it's easy to take them lightly. But a story about a lost horse shows that they can be surprisingly deadly. I recommend you read Ray Duckler's take on the...
NH BioMade awards are important but that doesn’t mean I understand them
New Hampshire is working to develop a biotech industry, focusing on medical technology, especially the design and manufacture of materials that can replace bits of our bodies - skin, bone, muscle. Its focus is the New Hampshire Center for Multiscale Modeling and...
COVID tracker: It’s tempting to fixate on those outliers
When you’re looking at a whole bunch of numbers, as the Monitor does every week while tracking the status of COVID-19 in the state, it’s tempting to focus on the outliers. An example came last Thursday when the number of new hospitalizations, a data point that was...
Heating buildings & driving around are the greenhouse gas demons in Concord
Everybody talks about cutting their greenhouse-gas emissions but it's hard to say you've cut them unless you know what you're emitting in the first place. That's the thinking behind a just-released Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the city of Concord, which has set 100%...
Ralph Baer, video game pioneer, is now a kid’s book star
While it’s true that receiving an award from the president, having a statue in your honor put up in your hometown and being featured in the nation’s most prominent museum are impressive achievements, you haven’t really made it these days until you’re the subject of a...
Patents in N.H. through Sept. 27
By Targeted News Service The following patents were assigned in New Hampshire from Sept. 20 to Sept. 27. *** Centripetal Networks Assigned Patent for Methods, Systems for Protecting Secured Network Centripetal Networks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...
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