Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Wild boars have a special legal status in New Hampshire
There's a large game-hunting park in western New Hampshire that is kind of weird. Called Corbin Park, it covers 25,000 acres or so surrounded by a 26-mile-long fence and is allegedly the biggest park of its kind east of the Mississippi, yet it is open only to 30...
Hunting while accompanied by a ferret – that’s illegal in New Hampshire
The state may lose one of its more unusual laws, which says you can’t be “in possession, custody or control of a ferret” while hunting, but even if it does you’re not going to be able to go rabbit-hunting with ferrets any time soon. “I’ve taken a lot of good-natured...
Watch TV with an antenna? Some stations are moving
Watching free TV over an antenna seems so out-of-date that it’s hard to believe the technology can change any more. But it can, and it is. Specifically, channels 7 and 38 out of Boston will shift frequencies by the end of the week. To keep watching them free over the...
It’s legal for NH employees to modify the weather – for the moment, anyway
One of the more unusual-sounding bills being considered by the state legislature comes up for a hearing Wednesday. It's titled "An Act repealing the statute governing weather modification experimentation" and I might be one of the few people who knew immediately what...
No success yet for online college with Tolkien emphasis
The New Hampshire legislature has tabled - "laid to table" is the phrase they use - efforts to give degree-granting status to Signum University, an online masters-level college with a small physical presence in Nashua. That doesn't mean the idea is dead, since the...
Banker says inequality, climate change are our biggest economic threats
I cover lots of non-tech/science stuff as part of my job, and one of the things I've done for a couple of years is to cover the Concord Chamber of Commerce's annual Economic Forecast Luncheon in which an analyst from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston talks about...
A safari hunting license for N.H.’s huge, mysterious ‘game park’
New Hampshire has a large (more than 25,000 acres, surrounded by a 12-foot-high fence that’s 26 miles long) private hunting park in Sullivan County that relatively few people know about. If you've heard of it, that's probably because of this NHPR story from several...
Push for carbon fee will show up at some town meetings, of all places
New Hampshire town meetings are concerned with the local-est of local issues - two-acre zoning or buying a new fire truck or whether to spend money on a municipal fireworks display for July 4. But some folks are trying to get a national, even global, issue on the...
Online college with J.R.R. Tolkien emphasis faces a tough vote in N.H. House
An unusual bill that would allow an online college based in Nashua called Signum University to grant degrees, many for majors that are heavy on fantasy literature such as "Lord of the Rings", will likely go before the N.H. House of Representatives later this week. But...
Gas stations disappear – gas guzzlers face ‘range anxiety’
By now you’ve probably heard of electric-vehicle “range anxiety,” where drivers worry they’ll run out of power before they can get to a charging station. If your vehicle propels itself by blowing up liquefied dinosaur remains you might feel smug but maybe...
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