Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Childhood flu vaccination is falling here, there and everywhere
Childhood flu vaccination is down 7% nationally this year compared to last year and the decline is a lot worse locally, reports Axios Boston: In Massachusetts, 58.7% of kids were vaccinated in the 2023-2024 season compared to 53.6% in the current 2024-2025 season (as...
Plymouth State gets grant to develop first-of-its-kind Snow Drought index
From PSU: With a two-year, $192,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), researchers at the Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute at Plymouth State University (PSU) will comb through nearly a century’s worth of snowpack data from across...
Governor admits free market can’t handle vital medical industry, urges government control
That headline isn't the way Gov. Sununu would put it but that's the essence of his letter to the Biden administration - here's an IndepthNH story about it - in which he said the administration needs to “become the leader of this national issue rather than outsourcing...
NH patents through Dec. 15
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Dec. 15. *** Packaged Current Sensor Integrated Circuit ALLEGRO...
December snow-killing “rain on snow” events have increased by 46%
After yet another warm-rain-killing-snowpack event, New Hampshire Bulletin reports on analysis showing that it's not our imagination: they really have increased. ROS days increased 17 percent between 1981-2010 and 1991-2020, Peachey found. Even more telling is that...
Multi-pronged tussle over N.H. state energy policy roles
UPDATED TO FIX LINK If you like seeing how the sausage is made, as they say, check out the detailed New Hampshire Bulletin article about upcoming struggle over the role of various regulators in shaping New Hampshire's energy policy. Basically, there is disagreement...
Using A.I. ‘is almost like dealing with an alien intelligence’
Dartmouth Health sent out this article about a study of using A.I. to analyze radiographs (X-rays, to you and me). The whole article is linked below, but I want to highlight this quote because it's really interesting: “It is incredibly easy to fall into the trap of...
Vaccines are great; free vaccines for kids are greater
New Hampshire residents have always been pretty sensible about getting ourselves vaccinated, certainly better than those scared-of-modernity goofballs in Vermont because we know a good deal when we see it. And you can’t get a much better deal than avoiding deadly...
Doctors write ‘solar prescriptions’ for poor patients using power from their rooftop panels
One of the arguments in favor of distributed energy (mostly behind-the-meter solar on rooftops) is that it allows us to do interesting things with electricity that can't be done with the old model of getting power only from a big plant far away. A terrific example is...
NH patents through Dec. 8
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Dec. 8. *** Method of Manufacturing a Dielectric Lens ASTRONICS AEROSAT...
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