Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
R&D spending has gone up a lot in New Hampshire, but venture capital investment has nose-dived
The National Science Board has issued its 2020 Science and Engineering Indicators report, which looks at things like college degrees and spending on research and start-ups. Some conclusions for New Hampshire in 2018: About 5.3% of people working in New Hampshire were...
People in Vermont drive a lot more than people in New Hampshire
A little state-by-state crunching of numbers by a site called Green Car Congress found that in 2018, Vermonters drove more piles per person than other New England states - even more than Maine, which is much bigger. STATE - Miles per capita - rank Vermont - 11,766 -...
Coyote rabies, as found in N.H. attack, is rare
Rabies is a complicated disease with different strains that affect different animals species differently, and their prevalence waxes and wanes over the years for reasons not always obvious to us. The announcement that a coyote strangled by a New Hampshire dad after it...
13K miles of stone walls in New Hampshire — so far
The N.H. Stone Wall Mapping program is an online project that lets people identify stone walls via LIDAR images of the region. As of this moment, they have found 12,700 miles of walls all over New Hampshire. (I wrote about the project a year ago) (Only Strafford...
EV charging corridors are creeping closer
New Hampshire is (finally) doing something to encourage electric vehicles in the state, using some of its Volkswagen dieselgate money to prod some fast-charging corridors. I've written about it many times - the U-L has a nice update. The contract starts in April.
DNA & a very, very cold case
You're familiar, I'm sure, with DNA being used to solve old murder cases. (The Bear Brook case in NH is a classic example.) Beth Potier of UNH wrote an article about a *really* cold case: A UNH biological anthropologist has helped crack a case that turned out to be...
When pets travel, pet diseases also travel
From UNH News Service: A pathologist with the New Hampshire Diagnostic Veterinary Lab at the University of New Hampshire recently diagnosed the fungal disease Valley Fever in a rescue dog from Arizona. It is the first time the lab has diagnosed this disease in a dog...
Did NH give up on restoring salmon too soon? (Hint: no)
For three decades state and federal officials tried to lure Atlantic salmon back into the Merrimack River without success, until they gave up in 2014. They haven't given up in Maine, and now comes news of a record spawning season in one of the major watersheds, in...
Science Cafe NH in Concord on alternative voting
Science Cafe NH in Concord next week (Wednesday, Feb. 23) will take all your questions about alternative voting systems, such as the ranked-choice voting that was such a hit when I ran a test election in the Monitor last month. ("Our experiment showed that some people...
We’re doing pretty well at reducing ground-level ozone
This is an article from the January-February edition of Environmental News, the newsletter of the state Department of Environmnetal Services. It talks about low-level ozone, which we want less of because it's part of smog - not to be confused with high-level ozone,...
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