Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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,...
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...
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