Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Wikipedia scoffs at lesser Mount Washingtons, and I face a wiki-quandary
Editors at wikipeida (meaning anybody who wanted to get involved) have decided that New Hampshire's Mount Washington is the most important one. Hooray for us! If you search "Mount Washington" in wikipedia you'll now go to the article about the Northeast's highest...
State health officials have become media stars
In parts of the county public health officials have been threatened and harassed by the pretend-COVID-isn't-a-problem brigade, but in New Hampshire they're respected, perhaps because Gov. Sununu has made Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette and state...
Tracking COVID in NH: Testing has slipped
I am keeping track of four measurements as indicators of how the COVID-19 pandemic is progressing. This is my fifth weekly update and the news continues to be good, although state testing numbers have slipped. At the same time, news from parts of the country where the...
Science Cafe NH has charms to soothe a savage breast
Science Cafe New Hampshire continues its digital existence next week with a conversation about Music Therapy: What is it? How does it work? Why does it work? How much of a difference can it make? Goodness knows we all need therapy these days and music therapy might...
N.H. patents through July 5
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 28 to July 5. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Tracking Area Planning Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 10,701,668,...
Is COVID’s toll in N.H. nursing homes extreme or typical? Yes.
There’s no denying the tragic toll that COVID-19 is taking on people living in long-term care facilities in New Hampshire, yet the most-cited statistic about the situation makes the state seem more of an outlier than it actually is. A staggering 80% of the 371 deaths...
A tale of scum, sludge, and yet another thing that COVID-19 is ruining
I was once asked to describe the difference between urban and rural. Simple, I said: It’s septic systems. If you’re connected to a wastewater treatment plant then you’re a city person, no matter how bucolic your surroundings. But if your toilet dumps into a concrete...
Vermont being Vermont: Mandatory composting & plastic bag ban
As of July 1, plastic bags are mostly illegal in Vermont and people cannot throw food scraps in the garbage. These two laws, in the works for a while, were almost sidelined by COVID-19 but, as VTDigger reports (here), they have stayed in effect. Vermont has slowly...
And (honk, honk!) we’re back ($#&*@!! traffic)
Traffic counts at E-ZPass stations on New Hampshire highways are back to the level they were at before the stay-at-home order arrived March 28. So one of the few benefits of the pandemic has faded away. Car traffic is actually slightly behind the long-term average -...
Delightfully named lumpfish might boost caged salmon production
From UNH News Service: Sea lice hurt Atlantic salmon, steelhead trout and other salmonids, and researchers with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire believe using lumpfish as cleanerfish—fish that eat parasites off other...
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