Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Check out the Science Cafe N.H. on flying cars
I can't wait for Science Cafe New Hampshire to return to three-dimensional space, but there's one advantage to a virtual SCNH viewed through the computer screen: Videos! At last night's SCNH, that mean videos of flying cars! Woo-hoo! You can watch the whole thing here...
Speaking of flying cars, ‘roadable aircraft’ get OK from N.H. Senate
The New Hampshire Senate passed a whole slew of bills yesterday, trying to catch up with COVID-related delays. Included in an overall transportation bill was HB-1517, "An Act Relative to Roadable Aircraft." I wrote about this bill last year, but it has morphed since...
‘Mouth-based activities’
Legal documents are notoriously hard to read but that's not because lawyers are bad writers - not entirely, anyway. Anybody who has ever tried to write a document with some legal heft knows that it's hard to develop wording that conveys exactly what you mean and...
Four numbers (plus 2) to track COVID-19 in N.H.
I'm looking at four data points each week (decline in new cases, low absolute number of new cases, high population testing, low positive rate of tests) to measure how New Hampshire is doing with the COVID-19 pandemic. You can see this week's report here. As a little...
The confusing dance of sunsets, sunrises and day length
As I write this (June 14th) sunrise has occurred at the earliest clock time of the year - 5:05:33 a.m. in Concord, a tiny bit later where I am, an hour south. But it's not the longest day of the year, meaning the most hours of daylight - that doesn't happen until the...
MIT dumps Elsevier, giant science-journal publisher, over article access
There's been a lot of grumbling in recent years from researchers about the business and information-sharing practices of the companies that publish scholarly journals: The basic complaint is that while scientists write the articles and do peer review for free,...
Dartmouth to lead IoT security research project
As far as I'm concerned, the big problem with the Internet of Things is security. With umpty-ump different companies fighting for attention with products that link you online, everybody's going to concentrate on features and price and ignore security and privacy,...
N.H. patents through June 14
By Targeted News Service The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 7 to June 14. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Providing of Nozzle for Liquid-Cooled Plasma Arc Torch Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No....
Everything you wanted to know about COVID vaccines
An organization called SciLine, which links journalists with scientists, hosted a terrific webinar this week about vaccines for COVID-19 - how they work, how they're being made, and what types are being pursued. If you're at all curious about this vital question put...
No contract-tracing apps for NH
Tuesday at a regularly scheduled press conference, the director of Health and Human Services, Lori Shibinette, said New Hampshire would not using apps on mobile phones as part of its efforts to track the spread of COVID-19. “We have looked at different apps … We just...
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