Interesting look at New Hampshire's dam situation from New Hampshire Bulletin (story is here), talking about a long-running problem: it costs money to keep dams in shape, we don't want to spend the money so lots of dams are in bad shape, and most of them serve no...

VTDigger reports: "Native lake trout has returned to thrive in Lake Champlain. Severely affected by overfishing and habitat destruction in the 1800s, the lake trout in the lake have benefited from a restoration program that cooperating fish and wildlife agencies have...

The weekly list of New Hampshire patents gathered by Targeted News Service is facing problems. This appears, I'm told, to be related to gutting the Patent Office along with all the other valuable government agencies decimated by the push to make government small...

More people have died in New Hampshire from the flu this season than in any other season on record, according to the state. There have been 71 deaths attributed to influenza this season, one of them a child, according to the weekly report from the Department of Health...

Helping to save the planet is all well and good, but if it’s going to inconvenience us, I’d like some immediate benefit. So how about this: My trash doesn’t stink. That is what got me into composting. At my house, all the peels, fat, coffee grounds and other organic...

I've learned to be very suspicious of claims that loudly proclaim themselves to be "pragmatic" or "realistic". More often than not, those are code words for "we don't want anything to change so we'll block all reform, pretending that it's useless." I get that vibe...

Science Cafe NH in Nashua is discussing drug development at its Tuesday, April 15 meeting: The journey from lab bench to the pharmacy shelf for new drugs is typically long (>10 years) and costly (hundreds of millions of $ or more). This discussion highlight some of...

Axios Boston has an article about Northeastern University and Champlain College in Vermont testing an "artificial intelligence" program from Anthropic, a California startup. It's called Claude for Education and there are lots of sweeping but not-very-concrete examples...

I am constantly encountering maps online showing falling birth rates in countries around the world with alot of hand-writing about the consequences. And while there are consequences from resulting changes in society in some places - I've written about New Hampshire's...