Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Gosh, it’s been super-windy this year! (Well, actually ….)
Doesn't it seem like it's been windier than normal over the past couple of months? It sure does to me and anybody else I've talked to about it. That query was put to the National Weather Service folks in Gray, maine, who cover Maine and most of New Hampshire. They...
Testing UV disinfection at UNH
My column a few weeks ago dealt with Jim Malley, a UNH professor who's been an expert in disinfection for decades and is leading research into methods of disinfecting medical equipment such as masks for working with COVID-19. UNH News has a feature story on the main...
Let’s revisit the arithmetic paradox for widespread disease testing
Seven months ago I wrote a column about the paradoxical arithmetic of mass testing for a rare disease, showing that even very accurate tests are wrong more often than we think. It was a fun intellectual exercise thrown together as a last-minute replacement for a...
Science Cafe NH goes virtual
After nine years of success hosting science-y discussions in bars and restaurants in Concord and Nashua, Science Cafe New Hampshire was squelched by COVID-19 just like everybody else. We hope to get back to reality in the fall, but next week the Nashua crew is trying...
An old river threatens an old cemetery
The historic Blake Cemetery in the North Country town of Stark, which sits atop a 40-foot bluff, is being undermined by the Upper Ammonoosuc River, with gravestones and human remains close to being washed away. On Friday, NH State Police found a human skull on the...
Katahdin Woods National Monument gets East’s first ‘dark sky’ designation
Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is now a "dark sky" sanctuary, the National Park Service announced today. The designation by the International Dark-Sky Association is the first of its kind along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., the second in the National...
Concert venue as drive-in movie theater
Tupelo Music Hall, a small and well-respected concert venue in Derry, has an interesting idea for giving show in the COVID Era: They're going to start hosting bands as if they were a drive-in movie theater. Sit by your car, watch the band on a stage, listen mostly via...
Yes, N.H. has slaughterhouses and they’re doing fine
Over the last six weeks a non-trivial percentage of the stories that I, and ever other reporter, have covered can be classified as "X industry's changes caused by COVID-19." Here's my latest: New Hampshire's four slaughterhouses are doing fine despite the turmoil...
N.H. patents through May 10
By Targeted News ServiceThe following federal patents were assigned to companies and individuals in New Hampshire through May 10. *** BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integrations Assigned Patent for GPS Jammer, Spoofer DetectionBAE Systems Information...
Recovered COVID patients – they want your blood!
Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 are being sought by New Hampshire hospitals and the American Red Cross because the liquid portion of their blood might help treat sick people. A number of hospitals including Elliott in Manchester, Southern New Hampshire in...
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