Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. data-visualization geeks, celebrate
Do you like data? Do you like data about demographics and economics and other topics that shape how the world works? Of course you do, Granite Geek fan. So UNH Carsey School of Public Policy has a treat for you: They've taken "What is New Hampshire?", a chart-filled...
Make popcorn, fire up YouTube, learn about electric car infrastructure
The September Science Cafe NH in Concord talked about the state's options for expanding electric vehicles via charging and other options. It lasted two hours and, as Science Cafe is wont to do, the conversation covered lots of topics from battery chemistry to signage....
Goats vs. invasive weeds, an update
There are a ton of really horrible invasive weeds out there, but Japanese knotweed might be the horriblest. In the UK it has gotten so bad that you have trouble getting a mortgage if the plant is found within seven meters of your property line, partly because its...
Native Americas didn’t make stone buildings but that doesn’t mean they weren’t here
New Hampshire covers about 6 million acres and people were living and traveling all over it for at least 12,000 years before Europeans arrived. But those pre-Contact people didn’t leave much evidence for us to see. The Granite State doesn’t have a stonehenge or huge...
Lyme disease podcast listening guide
Podcasts can be a terrific source of long-form journalism, but if you don't have a long commute and don't want to sit in the living room and listen to the radio the way people did in the 1930's before TV, podcasts can be too long. That might be a problem with the...
NH researchers are frozen into Arctic ice, but only just
Some researchers from Dartmouth are among the many scientists participating in a research project that involves a ship getting frozen into the Arctic ice for a year. That's not an original idea - the great polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen did it 120 years ago - but this...
‘Cap and trade’ for transportation – think RGGI for cars
New Hampshire is one of a number of states working on developing a regional cap-and-trade program - although "cap-and-invest" is the new term - for transportation. It would work sort of like RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that has helped reduce our...
The Lyme vaccine that isn’t and one that might be
For obvious reasons there is growing interest in a Lyme vaccine and growing questions about why dogs have one but people don't. The issue was covered in the NHPR podcast Patient Zero - which includes an awesome takedown of a quackish chiropractic laser treatment for...
A story about a whole bunch of ants
Giant ant mounds are a fact of life in hotter climates but we don't see them much in New England. So when somebody found a number mounds from a single colony in a forest in the town of Temple, NH, they called in an expert. You can read the resulting story from the...
Give online input for the state’s 10-year transportation plan
More bike lanes? Horses allowed on I-93? Passenger rail up to Concord? Electric buses? Wider roads? People-carrying drones? Hydrogen-powered tuk-tuks? New Hampshire wants your transportation ideas. New Hampshire Department of Transportation is seeking 5,000 state...
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