Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Apple’s new streaming TV service has a (small, admittedly) New Hampshire link
Among the endless free advertising - sorry, I mean technology journalism - produced out of Monday's product rollout by Apple there is a small New Hampshire connection: One of the shows being produced for Apple TV's new streaming service will be Steven Spielberg's...
Old stone walls accidentally record the shifting of magnetic north
Old-time stone walls in New England were often built along property lines and property lines were often laid out along compass directions. Ergo, they inadvertently provide a record of changing magnetic declination cause by the slow movement of magnetic north. That...
A little Sgt. Pepper’s nostalgia for us oldsters
I am ashamed that when writing a story about the Concord street department having reported 4,000 potholes in the city, I didn't think to include a "Day in the Life" parody. (slaps forehead!) Better late than never: 4,000 potholes in Concord New Hamp-shire // And...
Baer! Where? There!
The geek canonization (so to speak) of Ralph Baer continues to gather steam. Officials in Manchester are scheduled to hold a dedication ceremony on May 10 of what will become, unofficially at least, Ralph Baer Plaza in Arms Park, on the bank of the Merrimack River...
Tiny NH town OKs private/public fiber-to-the-home
Tiny Chesterfield, home to 3,600 people between Keene, N.H., and Brattleboro, Vt., appears to be the first town in the state to take advantage of a new state law allowing municipal broadband internet. The Brattleboro Reformer had this story in advance of the town...
Counting potholes finds a surprise: Last year was much worse
I have a story in today's Monitor about potholes and mud season - pretty typical March stuff for New Hampshire. But I got a surprise while reporting it: The city of Concord counts potholes, and last year at this time they had twice as many as this year - 8,000...
It’s been a while since a reader claimed to have disproved Einstein
One of the pleasures of being a (very) minor public figure associated with science is that sometimes I hear from people who have "disproved" major findings. In my earlier, more self-assured days I called these folks "cranks" - as in "Mathematical Cranks," the...
Dartmouth professor wins Templeton Prize, an unusual mix of science and spirituality
The Templeton Prize is one of the major prizes in science - $1.4 million in prize money helps - but it's a bit of an oddball because it emphasizes the non-quantifiable part of human knowledge. It was awarded today to Marcelo Gleiser, a cosmologist at Dartmouth. The...
Granny apartments – er, I mean, accessory dwelling units – join the state’s housing mix
Now that in-law apartments are no longer outlawed, New Hampshire towns are working on the details of what is turning out to be a small, if intriguing, part of the region’s housing mix. “We’ve had maybe four of them, if that,” said Stephanie Giovannucci, interim Town...
Electronic voter check-in got tested during town meeting voting
Voters were missing something when they showed up at the polls Tuesday in the town of Milford: The alphabet. For the first time in memory the polling stations in the middle school gymnasium lacked signs directing voters to a specific clerk depending on the first...
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