Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
An NH bill pretends climate change doesn’t exist because it’s too scary to face
ADDENDUM: Republicans on the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs committee recommended Feb. 7 that this silly bill be passed by the full house. 10-7 vote. Any parent knows how exhausting it is to have to cajole and drag along a toddler who doesn't want to do...
Science Cafe NH: “Science of Genealogy”
"The Science Behind Genealogy" will be the topic for this month's Science Cafe NH in Nashua on Tuesday, January 21, at 6:00 PM at Soel Sistas, 30 Temple Street. This free public event will feature a panel of experts discussing the latest advancements in genetic...
Inventor of social-media hashtag is a NH boy
The Union-Leader's Dave Pierce has a profile of a local boy (Manchester West grad who grew up Bedford) who developed the hashtag for social-media sites in 2007. The article is here. As an early technology user, Messina first tweeted the idea to his followers and then...
2024 was hottest year on record for Concord – a record that, unfortunately, won’t last
According to the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, last year was the warmest year in Concord since record-keeping began in 1868. The year finished with an average temperature of 49.6 degrees, 0.2 degrees higher than 2023, the previous hottest year on record....
Can the Cog Railway be electrified?
The Caledonian-Record has a story about UNH and the Cog Railway on Mt. Washington working to electrify the iconic mountain-climbing train. "This privately funded quarter-million dollar project aims to have a prototype ready by 2025" and will have "modular components...
Science on Tap: ‘Extinction Here & There’
The SEE Science Center’s twelfth season of Science on Tap discussions continues Tuesday, Jan. 14. Science on Tap events are informal discussions with local scientists and experts on a particular topic. On Tuesday January 14th the topic will be: Extinction Here...
You can get a local-news-ish product built entirely by A.I. … should I be worried?
I promise that this column was written by me and not by artificial intelligence. The fact that I have to write such a sentence says volumes about where we are at the moment. Here’s another one of those volumes: You can get a weekly email summarizing what happened at...
Migration from other countries props up NH’s tepid population growth
People coming from other countries are playing an increasingly important role in New Hampshire’s small but consistent population growth, recent Census data shows. The number of adults and children living in the Granite State grew 2.3% between the 2020 Census and 2024,...
State is keeping a nervous eye on bird flu
New Hampshire is gearing up to join a federal program testing dairy cattle for virulent strains of bird flu, which so far has been detected here only in some wild birds in early 2024. In other parts of the country, concern about Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is...
Registry of NH carbon credit properties now online
N.H. Press Release: A registry of New Hampshire properties enrolled in carbon credit programs is now available online, the N.H. Division of Forests and Lands announced today. The registry includes the legal name of each property owner; reference to the tax map and lot...
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