Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Wikipedia popularity map for NH, but who is Triple-H?
In an entertaining but essentially meaningless bit of data mapping, a couple of folks at The Pudding, an online publication that looks at culture via visual data, assembled a map showing the "most Wikipedia-ed" person throughout the U.S. (here's the map) In New...
We’re not alone in fretting about a ‘birth dearth’
New Hampshire has lot fretted about a shortage of births producing a "silver tsunami" of old folks that will cripple the economy, shutter our colleges and produce an over-supply of Denny's restaurants. Most of us know that is true throughout New England and other...
Finally, a historical marker that talks about something important
It took 10 months to get it done, but the Granite State is now officially a Geeky State: The latest New Hampshire Historical Highway Marker, celebrating the creation of the BASIC computer language at Dartmouth in 1964, has officially been installed. Everybody who has...
Forget political history; we want to know about the electric panel
People think of the New Hampshire State House as a bastion of democracy and a glorious symbol of our granite-willed independence, but here’s another way to think of it: A really old office building with some really weird wiring. The building celebrated its 200th...
Acoustics is topic of new UNH center
From UNH News Service: The University of New Hampshire has launched a new center focused on the science of sound. The Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE) will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research,...
A quiet week in Lake Geekbedone, my home site
I'm out of town most of this week, so I won't be putting much on the blog and newsletter - so you can squander more of your time with other online frivolity! But just in case you're bored, here's a tweaked version of a column I wrote last October, altered to fit...
Startup that wants ‘the little guy’ to hire political lobbyists gets Shindig award
EchoRidge, a Concord startup that wants to make it easier for people to hire political lobbyists, came in second at the annual Startup Shindig held by the N.H. Tech Alliance last night in Manchester, and pocketed $100,000. (Union-Leader story here.) First place and...
A little good news, and some big bad news, on Atlantic salmon
New Hampshire has thrown in the towel in its efforts to restore the Atlantic salmon to our rivers - dams, pollution, baby-salmon-eating striped bass and changes in ocean temperature and acidity have proved too much to overcome. But efforts are still going on in Maine...
No word yet on that hydrogen-producing mill
UPDATE: If you stumbled on this via Google, check the update (right here) - the owners do look like they'll open in 2020. The most intriguing techy story out of New Hampshire in the past six months was the proposal by a Utah firm called Q Hydrogen to use the closed...
Recycling struggles and a lot of it is our fault
You want to know why China stopped accepting most of the plastic and "fiber" (industry term for paper and cardboard) that we shipped them, causing our recycling costs to soar and the industry to freak out? Various geopolitical factors no doubt were a factor, but a big...
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