Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through June 7
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned to companies in New Hampshire from May 31 to June 7. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Carrier Aggregation Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned...
Let’s try to quantify the ‘can N.H. open now?’ debate
NOTE: This column ran Monday. I'll be updating it weekly; you can see it on ConcordMonitor.com by next Monday if you can't wait for the Thursday newsletter. If you’re wondering how we will know when the pandemic is over, there’s good news and not-so-good news. The...
Budget woes & pandemic squelch monitoring of lake beaches
A budget freeze and pandemic-related difficulties mean the state won’t be monitoring water conditions at lake beaches this summer looking for harmful algae blooms, but will only monitor ocean beaches. “New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has a hiring...
UNH: Male gamers don’t work out as much or eat very well
In a result that will surprise nobody, a UNH study has found that "college men who play video games tend to exercise less and have poorer eating habits compared to non-gamers." Here's the report from UNH News Service: Results from a new study by researchers at UNH...
First-of-its-kind push wants N.H. Electric Cooperative to become a broadband cooperative
Timing, they say, is everything, and the timing of a push for broadband internet within New Hampshire Electric Cooperative couldn’t be much better. “The argument is a whole lot easier now than it was a year ago,” said Dick Knox, one of a number of people behind a...
State is on the lookout for wild turkey families
I was working the other day in my home office - former den, former kids' computer room, former playroom - when a dinosaur looked at me through the window to my left. Actually, it was a wild turkey, but they sure have weird-looking heads. It could easily have been a...
N.H. patents assigned through May 31
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned to companies in New Hampshire From May 24 to May 31. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Assigned Patent for Phase Modulated Signals Having Poor Autocorrelation BAE...
Study: Sewage may predict COVID outbreaks by three days
Spotting the RNA of the novel coronavirus in sewage outflows proved to be a very effective method of predicting COVID-19 outbreaks, according to a preprint (i.e., not peer-reviewed) of a study by a number of researchers at Yale. You can read it here. SARS-CoV-2 RNA...
Getting sticks pushed up your nose is no longer unusual
When I drove up to the Milford Armory recently to get my free COVID-19 test, the National Guard solider at the gate explained the procedure this way: “It’s just like Dunkin’ Donuts.” He meant that I should stay in my car and the medic would come to me, but I’ve got...
There are at least 35 – soon, 34 – public payphones in rural Maine
Tux Turkel of the Portland Presss-Herald has a story about a Maine town with the wonderful name of Wytopitlock (population: 140) that wants to get rid of its only pay phone and replace it with a vending machine. A public interest payphone is part of a program...
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